Another One Down

Things have been rolling along as I’m reacquainting myself with a city I’ve only really talked to at parties, or in passing. I think we’ve already started to get to know each other better than ever before, and I’m looking forward to deepening...

Tikkun Review

Surprised by God Danya Ruttenberg Beacon Press, 2008 Subtitled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion,” Danya Ruttenberg’s very personal account includes: rejecting the sterile religion of her childhood, dancing her way through punk...

Arrived

We have gotten to our new (temporary) digs in the Boston area, and so far so good. The rest of the trip was lovely, featuring more visits with people of whom I get to see woefully little and less of the random tourism. All in all, a fair trade. I am having a little...

Notes, Misc.

Graceland was fun, of course, but ultimately a bit disappointing. I was just expecting something, well, bigger in terms of both the size and scope of the tacky and the glitz. Great Late Elvis jumpsuit display, though. Nashville: yay. The Country and Western Museum and...

Three Things Make a Post

Wednesday night on Beale Street is Biker Night. (The Harley kind, not the Critical Mass kind). Evidently this is the night of the week where they let bikes onto this no-cars thoroughfare, so hogs of all stripes and sorts were lining both sides of the streets, and...