My CFS makes the outside world a frequently scary place because I am just not strong enough, much of the time, to tackle it. Despite all my yoga and Alexander Technique and healthy eating and meditation and therapy, I’ve been plunged into a relapse of my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome the past two w...

I expect that name means nothing to you. He was a Jew in an industry I covered for 12 years. He was a pioneer in that industry. During the 1960s, he was shooting loops for display on 42nd Street in Manhattan. Then he hung up his directing spurs and became a salesman at VCA for almost 30 years. IR...

So I cut out of Alexander Technique class early so I can arrive on time to my 12:30 pm Torah class. I curse at other drivers on the road, particularly one guy ahed of mewho’s stopped and waiting for the opportunity to turn left over double yellow lines to enter a gas station. As I charge down ...

I left my Alexander Technique class 15 minutes early today so I could get to my therapy at 12:45 pm. My therapist and I entered a room I had not been in before. We sat in front of a mirror. Behind the mirror was a clinical supervisor and six interns. I had been preparing for this for weeks. I volunt...

"Would you carry this?" she asks. We’re outside the Santa Monica Co-Op on Broadway, a few blocks from where I had a passionate one-year fling with a gorgeous shiksa who was ten years my junior, five times more flexible, one-quarter Jewish and zero interested in Judaism. But the sex w...

I was sitting at the library Thursday evening exchanging torrid emails with a young shiksa via my Blackberry. On my lap was the sacred text of the February issue of Commentary magazine. I sensed something ominous to my left and I looked up from my magazine and there was the rabbi. Holy Hell! I felt ...

So I’m sitting in class and I’m thinking, why am I here? I already know all this. I attained enlightenment years ago. I’m way ahead of these people. I could teach this class. I sit there in mounting frustration for 90 minutes and then I realize I don’t know this stuff and the...

Many students of the Alexander Technique become overly excited by their studies. They tend to pair off with members of the opposite sex and go see such frivolous secular entertainments as movies. Afterwards, drives along Mulholland Drive are particularly popular. It is not unusual to say two student...

I hate the Firefox brower. It took five minutes after my computer started up this afternoon for the damn thing to pop up on my screen. Normally this would be an occasion for me to use the F-word, but no longer ‘coz I got Torah in my heart, a shiksa on my arm, Sanskrit mantras on my CD player a...

There are just a few minutes before Shabbat. I don’t have much spare time these days. Alexander Technique, acupuncture, yoga, therapy and commuting between these places take up about 40 hours a week. It doesn’t leave me much time to earn a living and satisfy the voracious appetites of my...