Stories about my childhood growing up in Detroit, my college and graduate school years in chemistry living in Portland OR, my clinical chemistry research years spent in LA, and lastly my years as a gemologist in New York City., Ideas and events which shaped my life as an orthodox jew, and those w…
A beautiful bike ride off road turns into a life saving experience.
On this Yom Kippur morning, when I expected only normality, I found myself completely alone with only the Creator.
The story of our lift to Israel, it was expected to arrive the week beforepassover, then corona happened; passover came and went,then the lift arrived with all our passover stuff. I guessthe 30 haggadahs will just have to wait until next passover.... and more.
The Passover Seder song of Dayenu calls out to me this yearas our unique situation of having just moved to Israel coincides with the first global pandemic.
Several years ago I traveled to Israel to visit my daughter.My arrival was met with unexpected challenges, but with a cry into the heavens for help, all worked out just fine.
One of the first hurtles in the Alyiah journey you won't be able to avoid is getting your documents apostilled.
Karen and I made the Big jump to Israel. The world isfaced with a pandemic. Everyone on the planet is staringinto a huge unknown..
During my late teen swimming years, I spent my summer months swimming at Brennan Pools in Detroit. Once a summer we elected to forgo the training, for a competition of a different sort.
Those mischievous days in my organic lab. at Eastern, and the practical joke we played on the freshman ladies enrolled in the per-nursing program.
When two friends and I went on a hiking trip to the adirondacks, we didn't get far before I flick the kill switch on the car, well the story takes off from there.
The story about my parents' retirement activity of square dancing, and how it kept their romance alive.
Memories of times shared with my sister Ruth.
On a trip to the east coast prior to heading out to Portland Or. for grad. school, I crashed on the side of the road; having survived the experience I was left with a strength I carry with me even today.
Brother Gary comes through in a big way to get me on time for my first day on the job at BSL.
Back in collage we dedicated one Shabbot dinner to our friend Bob, who missed out on having his Bar Mitzvah party when he was 13 years old, back in Nebraska.
The simple task of meeting my parents at the airport and taking them to their winter home, turned out to be a real nail bitter.
LA,Calf. does have four seasons per year, they're just not the same ones we have back east.
Words you are not likely to find in any dictionary.
Pre-judging people can lead to personally embarrassing situations.
my season coaching little league, and the key to a good game day.
Some situations are just so embarrassing, you can't believe it actually happened. But you just can't make this stuff up.
Who says there is no such thing as a stupid question, I've asked many, this story tells of just two of my favorite.
High school wrestling match between myself and the head school geek. My classmates were rooting for the fish.
Brother Ken and I on a fishing weekend in Calf. AND My father's big catch from the water hazard at the 14 hole.
A teenage blunder leads to near life long enmity between two friends.. simple message: forgive others and move on. Not because life is short, but because as the torah teaches us the best type of person is one who is slow to get angry and quick to forgive..
My bad sense of direction meant likely arriving late if i had never been there before.
This is the story of how and where I met my wife, and our path of dating.
After accidently formatting the company hard drive, finding the courage to face the music. Real personal growth is never easy.
Following the tragic deaths of my brother gray's family I looked for the guardian angel who had saved gary's life early in his childhood.
How I learned to define " sudden and immediate danger", here's the story.
Tells the story of my coworker's sister gets life saving new heart, after waiting 21 years, and his connection to the return of a lost article found in NYC subway.
the one question my father put to me upon my graduation from college.
non-stop drive from Portland to Detroit, a mother's day surprise.
While in Paris doing an appraisal of the Chaumet inventory, I found myself with the owner of the company I worked for, lost at night on thestreets of Paris with no Idea of where we were staying, or even how to get back to where we had come from.
Returning a lost object and the Satan's attempts to keep me from carrying it out.
A summary of my collage roommates, The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful Snow Queen)
In an effort to help Shoshi with her Chemistry homework, we discovered the parallels to the nature of the Human Bond.
Another great adventure where unfortunately I almost bought the farm, again!!
Passover at Bubby and Zaddi's house, and the nut games we played.
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