by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | News
Apple computers have been my constant companions for more than thirty years — in fact, I’m writing this column on my trusty iMac. I’m not exactly what you would call an “early adopter.” I’ve never stood in line outside an Apple store — in...
by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | News
A few days ago, a friend issued me a challenge on Facebook: without thinking too hard about it, list ten books that have influenced you. Once I made my list, I was supposed to challenge ten of my own friends to do the same thing. Thus, the “list of ten influential...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | News
It’s been sixteen years since I bought a videocamera to record the exploits of our brand-new baby girl. It was a Sony Handycam, a wonder of miniaturization that recorded onto mini DV cassettes. Even more amazing than its compact size and light weight — a...
by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | News
A young cousin of mine is going to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks. This means that she will be called up before the congregation at her synagogue to read from the Torah, the Five Books of Moses. This is an important rite of passage for Jews, who, at age...
by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | News
Chasing down a favorite food from your past can be a lot like looking up an old girlfriend: you’d better be prepared for disappointment — or worse, a bad case of indigestion. Things are rarely as delicious as we remember, since deliciousness is as much a...
by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | News
In the spring, I wrote about one of our favorite filmmakers, the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, who was known, over the span of a long and brilliant career, for creating fierce, capable, and imaginative protagonists — who just happened to be girls....
