It’s All Like, Interactive and Stuff

OK, it’s time for another round of de-lurkification! Don’t worry, it won’t hurt. Really, I’m just curious about who’s reading this thing. Some of you I know, either from Teh Interweb or from my actual real life, but I know there are many...

Books are Fun to Read

So it looks like I’m going to be in what appears to be a very cool theology anthology (say that 10 times fast) geared to teenagers. They were trying to compile intelligent, non-dogmatic answers to questions like, Are Jews the chosen people? What happens when you...

So, This Book

Every time someone asks me what this book is about, I struggle a little. I’m in the middle of writing, still, and am still trying to figure out how to make the thing do its thing. I don’t have the distance to be able to label it in a meta-view way, because...

Turtle!!

One of the best things I got for my birthday was this turtle, made by Hallel Ner-David, age 6:

Well, That’s Better

Well, looks like my S.A.D. (Shvat Affective Disorder) is on the wane, which is good. I get the blues every Shvat*, which is logical since it’s both that part of winter that just drags on a little too long, and for me personally, it’s a month with too many...

How to Pitch an Article

I have a dear friend who’s trying to make the leap into freelance writing (she’s published a book and now wants to quit her day job.) I just emailed her some rambling thoughts on the subject, and thought they might be useful to some other folks as well. If...

Me vs. 21.7%

OK, 78.3% done with this draft. I need to tinker a bit with the last section and put footnotes in a form recognizable to anyone but me, but dangit, I have to move on–by next Monday at the latest. February is the Official Month of Chapter Nine. I have two more...

Tu B’Shvat Hegia

In honor of the approach of Tu B’Shvat, I’m going to make a point of recycling–Torah, that is. Here’s something I wrote a year ago for Radical Torah; I know some of you have seen it, but perhaps not everyone has? I’m cranking hard to get...