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Something that makes me happy

Nina Simone, 1962, Eretz Zavat Chalav (A Land Filled with Milk and Honey)...

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On the mag racks of your favorite bookseller...

Be on the hunt for the latest issue of Heeb Magazine in which I profile the IPWA (Israeli Pro-Wrestling Association) in a brief piece written during a trip to Israel last March. At some point in the near future,...

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Something Telling...

These are the kinds of e-mails that my mother forwards to me. Two astronauts land on Mars. Their mission: to check whether there is oxygen on the planet. "Give me the box of matches" says one. "Either it burns and...

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Your Six-Word Memoir

A good friend pointed me to this. Smith Magazine is hosting a six-word memoir contest, allegedly in the spirit of Ernest Hemingway. Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to come up with a story using only six words...

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Happy Ron Jeremy Day...

To My Loyal Readers, A momentous...uh...moment transpired yesterday afternoon in the corporate burrows of my newest home. Surrounded by my peers and a mostly female crowd, I assisted in an author signing of great consequence, not just to me,...

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Nostalgia

Here is something wonderful. I spent the end of last week with a visiting Hassan who came to New York on his way to the Bahamas. I know, it's a tough life for a Harvard student. In the aftermath...

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