Category: Personal Reflections

The world is getting to me. Neither head-in-the-sand denial nor blithe indifference can fend off the fears. My companions are leaving. Even though they are not ascending in chariots of fire but El Al and

Paradoxes hold the high ground, containing such grand truths about gaining when you lose or only living when you die.  All this sounds very worthy and much to be striven after, but before becoming too

When I was young we were not allowed fires, just as we aren’t now, but we had them. My mother was the burner. She was the gardener, too, and had to dispose of the large

Regan: What need one? Lear:  O, reason not the need. King Lear – Act 2 Sc.4  Reason and need make good bedfellows for Regan when she tells her father that, after getting rid of ninety-nine, 

I’m not a serious runner. If you are, stop reading as this article isn’t going to explain the critical moment when a runner calls it quits, throws the shoes to the dog that’s being eyeing