How Lego Won the War and Lost Its Soul

Castles, wacky racers, anti-aircraft batteries, and pirate ships

Fear of Being Boring

How the fear of other people thinking we might be boring makes us boring.

In the old days when people used to go on holiday and take photographs and make prints they’d come home and say ‘you want to see my holiday…

Letting Go of the Ghosts of Past Love

A secular ritual step by step for being fully present to the idea of new love

I met a girl. She said she thought she loved me. I said I thought I loved her. She asked me how she could be…

Why do I feel bad when I’m supposed to feel good?

From the outside, it didn’t even look like a bar. I had to call my friend and get him to come out onto the sidewalk so I could find the place.

The Anger Management Workshop

Anger, singing and Memorex

I was sitting in the morning meeting at Dance Camp when an attractive woman stood up and announced she was giving a singing workshop that morning. Singing. I’d like to try that. Then a man stood up and…

It’s only a dance

Tango and the art of paralysis

We come to dance
You standing there
And I here
Your eyes are bright, shining slight

Younger women, and three legged dogs

Train trips in the Balkans, searching for Gypsy musicians and three legged dogs.

I was in a relationship with a woman much younger than me. She was pretty and lively and she had a sexy…

Stupid is still stupid

I saw Bruce at Tango last night. I like talking to Bruce. He’s the kind of guy I always looked up to as a kid. He was ‘educated’, he knew stuff, he’d read books I hadn’t. He knows the names of people, that I feel stupid I don’t know. I like talking to Bruce.

Screaming in the Desert

Hyperventilate, scream, jump, stand, dance

I was the oldest guy on the bus and the only one who wasn’t a soldier in uniform. The only one who didn’t speak Hebrew. I fell asleep as we drove south into the desert with my face pressed…

Watching all the nonsense in my head when I meditate

1, 2, 3, 3, huh? 4… she was pretty — is this meditation?

Watching all the nonsense in my head when I meditate