Yom Kippur Smoothie: A treat to sip all day

As you may know, I’ve been on a bit of a green smoothie kick.  I think with back to school, back to work, and back to life as we knew it in general smoothies just work.  There is a lot of pressure on this holiest day of the year to start it off right and…

Yom Kippur: Variations on a theme

Family photo taken at Mass MoCA (artist – Sol LeWitt photographer – me) This year, as I do every year, I am fasting for Yom Kippur.  Isabelle asks why we fast.  I explain that we fast to feel discomfort and do something hard.  Then reflect on how, in our particular lives, we rarely have discomfort…