Life in the Corn Field

September 28, 2013

Today is World Rabies Day. I didn’t know there was a World Rabies Day. Until today. When I did a Google search on rabies. After Critter Control came to get the rabid raccoon out of the neighbours’ front yard. Yes, there is wild life here in these parts. And it turns out that there have […]

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Forever, Again

September 25, 2013

While on a school mountain trip in 1983, I learned that my Judy Blume library was short one book: Forever. I was twelve years old when I discovered this glaring omission and immediately set out to rectify it. Reading a borrowed copy on my bunk during rest hour, I was interrupted by a parent chaperone, […]

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Adding not Replacing

September 12, 2013

I love the High Holy Days. I love the drama. I love the music. I love the liturgy that pushes me past my comfort zone and forces me to confront my soul. So too do I love our ability to augment the traditional liturgy with words that reflect modernity. When I was a kid, our […]

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Fear-Inspiring Awe

September 10, 2013

I am now a Jew in the Pew. But a former pulpit rabbi is never really just a Jew in the Pew. I am so grateful to have been asked by the rabbi of our synagogue to introduce a prayer of my choosing. Even more grateful because he also invited my former senior, and current […]

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Busted!

August 21, 2013

When we went to camp as kids, our parents, if they were lucky, would get an idea of what we were doing via hastily scribbled missives. If there was a major problem, they would get a phone call from the camp. Otherwise, it was out of sight, out of mind. Those were, in some ways, […]

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