Looking Forward, Looking Back Kierkegaard once observed that we begin Life by only looking forward and end by looking back to understand it. The Existentialists leave me cold with their nihilism and I find their approaches hard to digest. …

Looking Forward, Looking Back Kierkegaard once observed that we begin Life by only looking forward and end by looking back to understand it. The Existentialists leave me cold with their nihilism and I find their approaches hard to digest. …

Fighting For Our Lives This April, I will be celebrating my eighty-fifth birthday. I never thought much about getting old, but I never expected to reach this hoary old age. I’m not complaining. I am grateful for all the medical interventions that have extended my life. Like most older adults…

Fighting For Our Lives This April, I will be celebrating my eighty-fifth birthday. I never thought much about getting old, but I never expected to reach this hoary old age. I’m not complaining. I am grateful for all the medical interventions that have extended my life. Like most older adults…

Alternative Facts And Other Lies My head is spinning. I don’t know what to make of the world we live in now. …

Fighting For Our Lives This April, I will be celebrating my eighty-fifth birthday. I never thought much about getting old, but I never expected to reach this hoary old age. I’m not complaining. I am grateful for all the medical interventions that have extended my life. Like most older adults…

“We Lift Our Feet”* I am quoting from a letter (written in Portuguese and Hebrew,) sent by an (imaginary) obscure Rabbi (Coen Mendez)i living in London in the year 1657. He is writing to Manassah ben Israel, living in Amsterdam. (The Inquisition in Spain and Portugal was still raging but…

Fighting For Our Lives This April, I will be celebrating my eighty-fifth birthday. I never thought much about getting old, but I never expected to reach this hoary old age. I’m not complaining. I am grateful for all the medical interventions that have extended my life. Like most older adults…

Alternative Facts And Other Lies My head is spinning. I don’t know what to make of the world we live in now. …