Jewish Hipsters in Training / or / My Latest Project

Eleven teenagers who have basically one thing in common, a Hebrew School in lower Manhattan, come to the realization that there is, indeed, Jewish life after middle school.

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Invoke the Damour Act of Decency

Living is more important than shopping.

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Oy – I have such a hangover!

I have been – what’s the saying – LIKE TOTALLY OUT OF IT FOR, LIKE, EVER! Sorry folks. I had to unplug for a good long time and concentrate on things like finishing my masters thesis, keeping a job and seeing my son through to Bar Mitzvah! and by that time did I need a [...]

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On Furniture and Children

I arrived as a full-fledged grown up the day I bought my first sectional sofa. Being married four years, crossing the threshold into my 30’s and accomplishing a host of interesting things in the big city was child’s play, it was the sofa that truly ushered me into adulthood…well that and a baby but let’s [...]

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Solitaire / a short story

OK – yes, it’s true; I have been negligent in tending my virtual garden of prose. However, in the effort to stop writing about myself I have a short story – a work in progress – that I am ready to let out of the play pen of my own mind and into the creative [...]

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