[continues...and I'm so sorry for the loss of your dog. Always so, so hard.] "I'm going for a walk. Are you sure you won't go home? Maybe he's staying over night." Jana bats my shoulder and repeats her decision to…

I believe I am there, But I know not where, --Is it me you've been looking for? As if in a dream, Why does it seem --I search for you everywhere? Emerge from the night, Walk into the light, --Tell…

Our Rabbi held a special session for the confirmation class in his study at Temple Israel. He created a safe place where we could ask any kind of question, not necessarily Talmudic. We talked, a lot, about inter-religious marriage and…

(Continuing revising this novel.) derecho: (from the Spanish, meaning direct or straight) a large fast-moving complex of thunderstorms with powerful straight-line winds often causing widespread destruction. Anyone who has lived through a derecho will tell you no dictionary definition does…

Every actor starting a career needs to learn this true thing : they need you as much as you need them! Heck...every seasoned, deeply experienced actor needs to remember this lesson as well...because for the most part, actors who are…

It’s a lesson every actor needs to learn:

[continuing a little story: two friends, one whose dog is ill, they're in the vet ER late at night. They're in an exam room] I can't just wait here while they look at his blood. Raul groans a second time…

“It is I you have been looking for,” the giant said to the pygmy. “I’ll give you a ride.” “Thank you, kind sir.” The pygmy, tired of walking, climbed aboard the giant’s vast arm. “And what can I do for…

"The color of blood is red, the blood that runs in all our veins," began Father Bill. "Every day we have moments when we can actually consciously choose whether to harden our heart or to open it! Whether to express…

I had the album of Otis Redding singing live in some famous Paris venue in the late 60s. I used to play “Try a Little Tenderness” over and over. Not only does he give it is all, his voice is…

The Buddha made it simple to understand, like those yellow-colored, thick paperbacks stacked on the bottom shelf, in all the sections of bookstores, Suffering for Dummies. My copy’s pages are dog-eared, yellow-highlighted and coffee stained. The first chapter starts something…

They all lay around on the quilts and blankets , the grandma-squared afghans, the soiled sheets, as the music from the stage blared so loudly that even their ragtag group, situated as they were miles from the performance, could hear…