A Year in the Life of an Independent Author
A small fraction of those who excel in sports or the arts in high school and college become professionals in those fields. Fewer still...
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JMR
Dec 5, 20234 min read
The Rhetoric of War
Truth is the first casualty of war, said the Greek dramatist Aeschylus. There is something about war that lends itself to euphemism,...
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Nov 6, 20233 min read
My Take on the New England Patriots
I bet you've been wondering about my thoughts on the New England Patriots. Around here, everyone says the sky is falling. They want to...
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Oct 31, 20233 min read
Israel vs. Hamas; Esther vs. Haman
A number of years ago, while a member of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, I helped to write the temple’s Purim spiels. (For those not in...
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Sep 28, 20233 min read
Thoughts on “Yes”
I saw the band "Yes"in concert last night. The quotes are because with zero original members, this group of musicians is essentially a...
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Sep 26, 20232 min read
The Day After Yom Kippur
On Shabbat, it is said, we receive an extra soul and when the Sabbath departs, we feel depleted and turn to the spices of Havdalah to...
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Jun 23, 20232 min read
A Titanic Risk
When 9/11 happened, I was scared. For me, my children, my family. I felt that that could have happened anywhere, at any time, to anyone....
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Jun 1, 20232 min read
How Ted Lasso'd Our Hearts
Oh wouldst that it could be true. That one man, a simpleton, a Gump for the heart, could preach such old-time values as kindness,...
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JMR
Jan 1, 20233 min read
Fifth Commandment
By Jason M. Rubin “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long….” Exodus 20:12 I. Father Time is not to be trifled...
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Dec 25, 20222 min read
RIP Sarah Jensen
I’ve told this story before but the only reason I’ve written four novels (one yet to be published) to this day is because I was dared to...
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Dec 21, 20223 min read
Light the Candles, Lose the Oil
As a Jew born of parents who had no desire to appear in any way assimilative to the larger Christian culture in America, I was disabused...
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Nov 9, 20223 min read
Balls of Power
Aside from the fact that my health insurance is going up $120 per paycheck next week, I’m mostly okay with not winning the recent $2...
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May 7, 20222 min read
Bless Me
I am way too blessed, and most of my blessings, it seems to me, are undeserved. Unless being born a White male in a Blue state in America...
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Apr 16, 20222 min read
Moses on Mount Sinai: A Short Scene
And the Lord did make a sign for Moses, that he would go to Mount Sinai, and climb the mountain, whereupon he witnessed a bush on fire...
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JMR
Feb 2, 20223 min read
Happy Retirement, Tom Brady
It was Sunday, February 3, 2002, twenty years ago almost to the day. It wasn’t an ordinary Sunday, it was Super Bowl Sunday. And it...
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Dec 30, 20214 min read
Of Connections and Communities
The great thing about being an American Jew—apart from knishes, blintzes, and an ancestral connection to Bob Dylan and the Three...
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Nov 6, 20217 min read
A Pull Back, A Leap Ahead
It was a long, slow, gentle pull, barely noticeable, not even stirring any sense of curiosity on my part. It was a slight tug back toward...
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Oct 10, 20214 min read
Love & Mercy with Brian Wilson
I could have submitted what follows to the Arts Fuse, the online arts magazine that pays me money in exchange for my opinions on music....
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Jan 12, 20215 min read
The Naked Truth About Sheldon G. Adelson
I graduated college in spring 1985 and naively assumed my diploma would open any corporate office door I chose to enter. By late August,...
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Jan 11, 20213 min read
The Naked Truth About Donald Trump
Unpleasant though it may be, I ask you to close your eyes and imagine Donald Trump with no clothes on. What do you see? The answer is...
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