On Being. Apr 10, 2016. He didn’t want this conversation, and he hadn’t started it. Neil and I had been friends and college classmates for about a year. He was a religious Christian, and I a secular Jew, but he never preached to me. Out of nowhere, I asked him whether he thought I was going…
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A Father’s Lectures
This I Believe. Radio presentation on The Bob Edwards Show, June 7, 2013. Also appeared as a chapter of This I Believe: On Fatherhood ed. Dan Gediman, John Gregory, and Mary Jo Gediman. My father wasn’t a spanker, a shouter, a poker, or a grounder. He was a lecturer. When he really got into it,…