How to Find the Magic In You

I restarted this blog for several reasons. The obvious one is that I love to write. When I sit down at my computer and get started, I feel calm and yet excited. It’s an actual physical sensation of pleasure and I feel my brain, which is often swirling with thoughts and feelings, become organized. Whatever... Continue Reading →

May 3, 2019 2

Freedom from a Narrow Place

Tonight I will sit down with family and friends to participate in the tradition of the Passover Seder. For the most part, the ritual is the same every year: retelling the story of the exodus from Egypt so future generations will remember it and keep retelling it. But why bother? The Jewish people have a... Continue Reading →

April 19, 2019 0

An Amazing Woman

While in L.A. I spent some time with an old family friend, Doris Dotson. Doris is almost 80 years old, came to California from Birmingham, Alabama during the segregation of the 1950s. She worked as a cleaning lady for my grandmother, mother and aunts by day and as a janitor for L.A. City College by... Continue Reading →

March 2, 2010 1