Date archive for January, 2011
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Reprising the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I am officially a big, fat hypocrite. A big, fat hypocrite who’s moving back home…to Marina City.
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The Kippah of Conversation
Yes, I’m becoming a religious Reform Jew. Yes, I wear a kippah full-time. Yes, my last name is Doyle. Uh, can we talk about the weather now?
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“…But one of the worst is commercialism.”
In this second of two tardy Yuletide posts, I realize just how crass a secular Christmas can be, by spending my first one as an outsider looking in.
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Oy to the World
When a well-meaning friend asked me on Christmas Eve, “Is being at temple tonight hard for you?” they were surprised I said, “No.” I wasn’t surprised at all.


