Reach Up a Glad Heart

Comments and ideas on the parshah of the week.  Let's begin with this week's parshah Mikeitz which always falls on or close to Chanu...

Jordan River - Photo How could a river, calm and still - A rive...

Morning Light Step forth this day Past...

, Swift Express A messenger arrived swift express ...

Aug. 28, '13                              Going for Broke       I always wanted a picket-fence happiness -       Fluttering white c...

      Aug. 14, '13                                    Breaking Free       We're told and I believe it:       The world every se...

     July 31, '13                                  The Reckless Choice                                            "I shall set...

July 31, '13                              Rap Song of the Sixties         Ain't no way I'm gonna stay on this no-exit stre...

                July 17, '13                           Building the Bais HaMikdash       I found today the brand of marmalade I so...

                         July 10, '13                               Expecting the Unexpected      Ever since assigned to write  ...

                                      June 26, '13                                        'What If ' I Refuse...        I ...

June 19, '13                           A Consuming Occupation     Happy my years of teaching though passing few -     Ever since I ...

      June 12, '13                                  Color Me No Color    "I will raise aloft the milk-white rose" -    I ...

             June 5, '13                              No Problem - No Solution    It's a real dilemma finding a resolution    T...

                    May 29. '13                            Sonnet On Line           To take off with any word through time         ...

                   May 29, '13                                 U.S.A.      I wish to make it clear from the start -      Jerusalem...

                                April 24, '13                         Unseasonable Weather               When I consider my inner wea...

         May 22, '13                                       Standing at the Mountain         I'm standing in my stroller seven m...

                        May 8, ,13                                    Fear Only One         Nothing in school scared me more than ma...

                      May 1, '13                                L'ag B'Omer - Beauty Within Beauty                      ...

                        April 17, '13                                                           Independence Day - 5773 I watched ...

                             March 31, '13                  On Being Assigned to Write About Preparing                       I ...

                                                                                                         Spring    I never liked spri...

       Feb. 13, '13                                              Peering Into the Future                                    Wheneve...

The governor and local officials gratefully await The arrival of the President. He will greet the area's hard-...

I'd like to think the olive tree braves the storm, But that's fond self-projection - With winter's blo...

I never saw a field of wheat - "Yet know I how it looks" - Nor had I known a single sheaf - Except I found it in a book. Wheat - i...

It was the wind Like the crack of a whip - The kind that goes ...

A girl got on the bus today Who reminded me of My friend Elaine in our youth - ...

"Ain't no way I'm gonna love what is When what is adds up To what ain...