"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon." Read More

Turns out I was "only" 94% eastern European Jewish ... Read More

Outside my bay window I can see a parade of saris, hijabs, turbans, baseball caps, blue jeans, you name it. Read More

This story is something of a confession: I have had memorable episodes of boredom when I've been around other people ... Read More

She kept saying in her combination of Yiddish and English, "I can't believe they are walking on the moon." Read More

I'll never forget the syllabus for that summer Russian literature class, which included War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, plus some stories by Pushkin, Gogol, and Chekov. Read More

Every 4th of July I spent in New Jersey I became exceptionally popular. This one time a year, everyone wanted me to be part of their group ... Read More

What's scary is how computer algorithms, AI, and all our technology can take data that is perfectly true and turn it into "facts" that are frighteningly false. Read More

If I still was feverish, I couldn't tell once we went outside in the steamy Caribbean. Read More

He said, "I look like Omar Sharif." I thought, "...yeah, and I look like Michelle Pfeiffer." Read More