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TO BE, OR NOT TO BE…

​An attorney told me a joke: “What do lawyer’s and sperm have in common?”Answer: “A one-in-a-billion chance of success.” ​With our president now in Brussels, later in Warsaw, to confer...

HOLIDAZE: A CHRISTMAS RANT

Jewish heritage and blood are my forefathers’ “gifts” to me.  Calling me a Jew and assuming I’m about all things Hanukkah, however, would be as unwise as deciding – because...

GOING HOME

​They filed in about as noisily as one would expect of a high school student body:  Friday morning, Homecoming weekend at my old high school alma mater.   As the gymnasium...

A SHAMELESS PLUG

Imagine...you find yourself in uncharted territory (much like the photograph below), with responsibility for several children.  Lost, injured, in sweltering heat...with no water, no compass, and a plummeting sun...where any...

THE JOURNEY OF A STORY

​Once, when asked where he goes to write his stories, Ernest Hemingway famously quipped, “In my head.”  That casual dismissal belied a spirit of adventure and deep desire for tactile...

LEAP OF FAITH

​​In June, 2015, I took a leap of faith…loaded my car with three weeks’ provisions, kissed my wife good-bye, and began a road trip that would bring me back to...