Homepage

The ancient Jews had two calendars, one civil and one religious. The religious one was reckoned to start in spring. The civil one in the fall. Of course, our calendar starts, weirdly enough, in the dead of winter. The Jewish religious calendar started just as all of nature was coming

My four year old son, Peter, has struck up a friendship with an invisible acquaintance named “Parrot Man.” You might suppose from the name that Parrot Man was either a Parrot or a Man or a little of both. But there you’d be wrong. Parrot Man is called Parrot Man

The other day, I sternly warned my two year old, Peter, that he must never, ever touch or kick the car door handle. For all he could tell, I was laying out an eternal edict, exalting car door handles above all things, and committing him to the reverence of car