Spend some time here; forget the naysayers (and some of them, friends of mine, think that because the water’s always been there, it always will be); buzz over to Delano’s gallery; think about how rapidly the climate is changing–and then see if you can look at that Arizona golf course the same way again (or [...]

Okay, I’m still trying to wrap my head around this NYTimes article about the rise in book theft.   Could it be that people are finally waking up the value of books? Naw . . . that would be too logical .  Fascinating, nonetheless.

There’s this great line Faye Dunaway has in Bonnie and Clyde: “We rob banks.”  (If you’ve never seen the movie, do.  In another incarnation, I studied and wrote articles about film and I still think it must be glorious to be paid for watching and then reviewing movies.   I never made it to the level [...]

I have never commented on a show–or even this one–before, but I will now because the finale raises so many interesting questions in terms of what a writer might choose to do at this point. And, yeah, I love the show So, as I said on the Dexter Facebook page: Holy cow.  Great ending to [...]

As some of you know, I live in a small village in rural Wisconsin, and ours is the only mezuzah in town.  Now, there is a pretty good-sized town just four miles away, and that was once a pretty vibrant center for Jewish life in this part of the state–so much so that the town [...]