Date archive for January, 2011

  • Reprising the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    I am officially a big, fat hypocrite. A big, fat hypocrite who’s moving back home…to Marina City.

  • 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?

  • “…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.

  • 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.