Tonight I just wanted to sleep alone each touch of skin and furtive blanket movement nails across the blackboard  of my sleep. Sometimes I p...

This is part of a story I've been writing for, yikes, way longer than it should have taken me.  If you want, you can read from the begin...

Last night we were one week and five days into the seven-week, seven-day cycle of counting the omer, our contemporary verbal gesture toward ...

I have a new poem on Hevria and I hope you like it. Without overtly intending to, it covers my 3 big themes: the human relationship with th...

I wrote this poem a while ago, but wasn't really sure what to do with it. One of those things that seemed too cheesy to non-religious pe...

I was out to breakfast with my brother-in-law, who told me he really liked my latest Hevria piece. I thanked him, then immediately regretted...

I've been working out for a while now -- close to a year, maybe? -- which isn't so impressive in the greater scheme of things, or at...

  The bravest thing I ever did was writing my name. Since Hevria started accepting guest posts (a whole year ago!), we’ve gotten some amazin...

I wrote a new short story on Hevria -- well, okay, half a short story -- but I have the whole thing in my head, and I'm, like, 98% sure...

I  stole a story  from the Baal Shem Tov. Well, I sort of stole it. The part about it being in space, the aliens, the toy robots, the over...

Hey, it's my latest piece at Hevria ! I was complaining about our personal posts being too depressing these days, or maybe just mine, a...

When I wrote my latest Hevria  post, I was feeling kind of fatalistic. The kids were not sleeping and I was watching Avengers: Age of Ultron...