We’ve heard the New Year quips: “The closing of one chapter is the beginning of another,” “Endings precede new beginnings,” and most recently, “Goodbye, 2024, Hello 2025.” Here’s another one, though not specific to a new year: “All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” It’s a …
It’s Christmas, and the struggle to stay off the “naughty” list and cling to the “nice” list is over. Parents who have used Santa’s “naughty/nice” list as a means of behavioral control must now utilize another method to reward good conduct and punish the bad. Various websites exist to aid parents who use the naughty/nice …
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, 85-year-old, award-winning actor Ian McKellen was asked about his pet peeves. “It baffles me,” he said, “why so many people these days, if they’re sitting in public, they’ll be talking to their iPhone…I want to stop them and say, ‘Do you realize the love of your life …
“The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker’s old broken-down toolhouse.” So began Barbara …
I love a good story, and rabbis (teachers of Judaism) often have some of the best because they usually have a little twist in telling the truth, like the one about the nine men and a goat. In his book How to be Decadent, journalist George Mikes has this version: a man comes to a wise rabbi …