For Fathers Only

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year is almost upon us. Preparations for this holiday are extensive, physical (cooking, cleaning) and of cour...

One of the pleasures of my life is that my wife has not heard many old jokes . What is stock to most of the joke-hearing world is unknown t...

For a traditional Jew Shabbat is a special day, a day of peace, reflection, and joy. For me it is also a day of just a little fear. There i...

Not much blogging, in great part because Mother Goof and I headed off to Belgium for a week. (There was a beer festival in Brussels, althou...

As an honorary soccer mom (I am a dad, of course, but I drive most of the carpools) I found Mass. Governor Duval Patrick's speech partic...

Michelle Obama says she wakes up every morning and her first thoughts are of her children. I am unimpressed. The defining feature of paren...