One of the most ancient scriptures in Hinduism, the Brahmanda Purana, is named after an egg. It was all there was, in the beginning:…
“אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לי” — If I am not for myself, who will be for me? ******** I punch my tight fists…
Jicama fish tacos. I don’t know if I could imagine a more LA-sounding dish. But they tasted so refreshing and healthy, I had to…
There is a Taco Bell not too far from the train station, the LIRR stop I used when I still needed to commute to…
My first visit to my OB-GYN after learning I was pregnant went something like this: Doctor: …just high-mercury foods and alcohol. That’s all you…
My final moments, I figure, will be just like in ‘Citizen Kane’: from the master bedroom of a decaying mansion stuffed with classical sculpture,…
The lime green coat of paint on the stucco outside walls of Baden Baden Hof had faded. My father’s younger brother, the oldest of…
“The sun set in the sea; the same odd sun rose from the sea, and there was one of it and one of me.”…
I grew up in Manhattan where Dyckman Street meets 200th street. My apartment building was the biggest on the street, six stories of red…