Can you imagine taking this step?
On August 7th, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit made history with one of the most extreme high wire performances of all time.  I had heard about this a long while back but it wasn’t until last week’s 9/11 media attention that I really discovered him and what he achieved.  It took [...]

Greetings from (currently) sunny Vermont!
Yesterday my son woke up with this weird and nasty looking rash on his shoulder so we decided to take him to a doctor.  As we’re up in the small hamlet of Bondville it took a while to track down someone to go to and being the big city folks we [...]

Have you ever been wondered if your money is a good thing or not?  Most people probably don’t but according to the personal development classic “Chovos HaLevavos” by Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda, maybe we should.
He says that there is a sure fire way of knowing: 

If you are at ease with your money and it [...]

Not 5 minutes ago I received this email:
Dear friends
In the last couple of months I have come into contact with many women who are intelligent, attractive and ”normal”. Most of these women are in their early to mid 30′s and are having a very hard time finding dates.If you know of any men who are single, ages 30 – 45 years [...]

We were fortunate to have Donna Sonkin as a guest lecturer this week on the topic of  holistic nutrition.  We learned a lot about the beneficial effects of “real food” on the body and also what happens when we feed ourselves bad stuff.  Did you know that Judaism teaches that we are all in possession of [...]

When I was in 8th grade I was a hard core Doors fan and you don’t really dance to the Doors.  As a result a friend once derided me for thinking I was “too cool to dance”.  That got me thinking…
Have you ever wondered just what exactly the point of that gyrating around that we [...]

So how do you know if something is really important?  Simple.  Everybody says how important it is…and nobody does it.  Want an example?  I could get 99 out of 100 people to agree that to speak “lashon hara” (gossip/slander) about another person is wrong and in fact is in opposition to their personal value system.  [...]

Some folks from my Monday night class asked for a write up of this, so here it is:
The most ancient (and still used) texts of the Kaballah is called the “Sefer Yetzirah” or the Book of Formation and it’s contents are generally attributed to the patriarch Abraham.  The book opens with a discussion of the [...]

I doubt that anyone is surprised at Mel Gibson’s behavior at this point, but I always find career implosion to be a fascinating thing.  Remember when he was a huge star (Lethal Weapon, Mad Max, et al)?  Then he slowly morphed into this out of control uber-bigot.  I first took notice of it when he wrote [...]

My wife and I were fortunate enough to have had a healthy baby boy a few days ago.  We’ve done this before, but it’s something that I never get used to.  There is an awkward period of time towards the end when you know it’s coming..and soon, but have absolutely no idea when and thus [...]