Sometimes we do not choose our river, neither its depth nor speed nor path.  Sometimes instead   we do the whitewater…

She said to us, her beit din, “I don’t want to do it if the bottom is rocky or silty.”  We were…

I sometimes encounter books which I believe are critical to my development as a human being.  These are fiction or non-fiction books that pry open my…

Around 1980, I found myself in a San Francisco gripped by the deadly AIDS epidemic. Before the plague, I had the most…