
My side of the family gathered this weekend for our annual Christmas dinner and gift exchange. Great food, much laughter, children once small filling much more space around us. Maybe partly because of this,...

The year is coming to a close and lists abound. Best of 2011, in every conceivable category. Hands down, the best experience I had all year from any artistic offering… Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.
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Yesterday I asked a friend to verify a translation for me. Two words, English to Hebrew. She speaks and writes Hebrew, her first language. What I had found, when I plugged the words into an online translator,...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka