2022.07.DisappearingMoment
I’ve been a lot more social over the past few weeks than I’ve been in several years. It started as I set up time with friends before the ALA Annual...
2022.06.DisappearingMoment
Calvin Trillin wrote that all families have a message. In Trillin’s family it was, “You might as well be a mensch.” For me, in my family, the message was,...
2022.05.DisappearingMoment
On Friday morning, May 5, I gave myself an antigen test and found out I had COVID-19. There should be a word for these confluences, when the thing you most...
2022.04.DisappearingMoment
(Adapted from a speech I gave at my mother’s 80th birthday on April 14, 2022) One of the best bits of advice I’ve ever read is something that a lot of people...
2022.03.DisappearingMoment
Years ago, there was a debate that divided my Reconstructionist congregation. Should we announce pets, along with the names of deceased family and friends,...
2022.02.DisappearingMoment
Every so often I run into a book or essay about how we would be happier if we stopped consuming social media and the news. The authors tend to looks like me....
2022.01.DisappearingMoment
“This is not advice,” Matt Levine will write before proffering tongue-in-cheek advice. “None of this is ever advice.” For Matt, a humorist disguised as a...
2021.12.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to December 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts An Absurd Result (I Liked It):...
2021.11.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to November 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi...
2021.10.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to October 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt (2021)...
2021.09.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to September 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Jacked (I Liked It): Taraji P....
2021.08.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to August 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Butts & Guts (I Liked It):...
2021.07.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to July 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books The Jewish Way by Irving Greenberg...
2021.06.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to June’s 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books Bird by Bird (Highly Recommended):...
2021.05.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to May 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk...
2021.04.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to April 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books Joint-Friendly Fitness by Bill DeSimone...
2021.03.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to March 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Books Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)...
2021.02.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to February 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Amended (I Liked It): Laura Free,...
2021.01.DisappearingMoment
Yo! Welcome to January 2021’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of opinions and experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?...