This week I will light the 31st yahrzeit candle for Dad. As the years go by, I remember him less for his emotional pain and more for his special qualities.

Feelings matter. Children do need to feel heard and understood. But encouraging kids in adolescence to marinate in their feelings hurts them.

Attempting a horticultural rescue operation would be a new-for-me, creative, productive exercise. If not life-affirming, it was at least plant-affirming.

The legacy media continue to treat “pro-Palestinian” protesters with kid gloves, while depicting Israel as the bully terrorizing the neighborhood.

I’m not alone in feeling that somewhere along the way, Pesach became too complicated, too stressful, and too expensive.