Hooray!

I have now successfully taken and passed the infamous Daf exam. It actually wasn’t so bad, being quizzed on random sections of 50 dappim and having to hold forth on them. I felt good during the test (it was an oral test, with 3 members of faculty grilling me)...

New Blog

Well, new to me, anyway. My friend and teacher Rabbi Alan Abrams is a hospital chaplain who is now in the process of learning how to train other hospital chaplains. Turns out he’s been blogging (nobody ever tells me anything!) for a while. You can read his...

mitigated

This week’s joy has been thrown for a loop by a family emergency, now taken its course. I’m sad, grieving and exhausted now, flying back to the West Coast tomorrow with a heavy heart. Not really in the mood to share details just now.

Nuptuated

I am now completely, totally, incontrovertably, excessively, blessedly married. It was a lovely day. Even though was bit overcast and chilly/rainy, so there was only a little bit of bootyshaking (fortunately, it didn’t start being really rainy until we were in...

I love this.

I mean, yeah, people who are dying do have a palpable something about them. There’s the thing, and you can feel it. Nobody better than this cat, it seems. What a great cat. I’m glad he goes to give the folks love when they get close to crossing over. Oscar...