When I was a teenager I spent a summer on Edisto Island, SC, where I worked as a landscaper (yard boy) at a very old southern plantation known at the time as the Dodge Plantation. Dating back to 1810, it was a cotton plantation used as a Union hospital in 1862. I used to go […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melekh Ha’olam – A sonrise prayer
God is great, God is good… Good God, good meat, good gosh lets eat… Thank you Jesus for our food (to the tune of ‘London Bridge’)… I’ve heard all those graces said or sung at meal time. One striking thing to me about the Hebrew Passover Seder, besides all the wine they drink, is the […]
The Acid Test
Have you heard the TSA’s new slogan? ‘We handle more junk than E-bay.’ Not long ago I sat at the Orlando airport waiting on someone to arrive on a flight. I enjoyed watching a couple of dogs passing up and down the lines of people at security, sniffing for whatever they were trained to sniff […]