I’ll be the first to admit that California and all of the great things that happened to me once I moved here has changed me and my perspective. The change didn’t happen immediately, I first had to shrug off years…
Tag: life
Marriage will break you
There is no way that I would voluntarily given my wife the better piece of chicken when we were newlyweds. I would have kept it for myself, under the guise of “what she doesn’t know won’t hurt her”. It’s not…
You’ve changed and I don’t like it
Ever since I started writing this blog people have been telling me, usually in a negative tone, that I’ve changed. I remember the first time I ever got a comment that said “you’ve really changed your writing, go back to…
Apparently I was supposed to announce my temporary vacation
In the blog world people need constant content and if they don’t get that content they typically don’t visit your site. Of course, I was surprised last month when my pay per click advertising was at it’s regular rate and…
Nu, why haven’t you been blogging much lately?
The last few weeks have been very hectic with work, the week before last was 55 hours and last week was close to 75 hours – followed by some fun times with the wife in Yosmite, Mammoth and LA. Next…
This may be my last post as a single man…
In preparation for my wedding this coming Sunday, I spent the last 3 days in the woods. A 26 mile solo backpack in the Ypsemiote high country, followed by some good hitchhiking to get back to my car and a…
Ramblings about death and appreciation
Even as I mounted my bike and rode up the switchbacks through towering redwoods, I couldn’t relax. It was too close to shabbos to relax, sure I was happy to finally be away from people, the city and any distractions…
I’m already regretting coming to New York for succos
By the time you read this I will be suffering through a flight from San Francisco to New York…. I’m already regretting my choice to leave this paradise I live in, it may be raining outside at the moment, but…
Yom Kippur Rant
I would love to spend Yom Kippur in the woods, every year I have the same debate and every year my yetzer tov or yiras shamayim takes the form of “dude are you f–cking nuts” and I shoot down the…
The 20 most skipped parts of davening
Yes I have spoken about this before and yes I have even made videos asking other people what parts of davening they are most likely to skip, but I never actually made a good list of the parts that I…
Hey Hesh why haven’t you been blogging much lately?
Last month was a stellar blogging month in both traffic and content for me, I wrote some great stuff and was rewarded with the knowledge that 75,000 folks visited my site last month, but I knew this month would be…
It’s so hard to write when the weather is nice
For the past couple of months the weather has been unsettled, rain then sun, then cold, then who knows…Then God woke up to my pleas for nice weather during my daily shachris yechidus in my bedroom and brought forth beautiful…
So you think you can shomer?
So You Think You Can Shomer? by Anshel M. Shomer negiah is a fine institution and all that, don’t get me wrong, but you simply cannot convince me that it’s conducive to a robust connection to Hashem. At least for…
The one year anniversary of becoming a cook
On December 27th 2009 I started a job which was to change my life. You see when I moved out here, I planned to work as a mashgiach for a short while (to me working as a mashgiach was a…
I only date when I’m bored and I’m not bored
If you look at a graph showing the periods of which I used to go on dates for marriage purposes you will notice something very startling, almost every date I have ever been on took place in the winter months,…
4 months in California and loving it
Everyone I have been speaking to on the phone lately has been asking me when I plan to move back to New York and just recently I tell them that as of now I could never imagine moving back east…
My computer is having technical difficulties and I really need a new one
I have needed a new laptop for sometime, my computer is constantly frozen and the latest issue is that it doesn’t allow me to access any wireless networks. Everyone says get a mac, I tell them to give me a…
I was just laid off!!!
Just like most people in the current economy I was waiting for some time to the day when my boss would call me into theother room and let me go, and on Tuesday he finally did, he looked at me…
On the passing of my friend Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal
I received an email a few months back from this fan of mine who wanted to shoot some videos with me, we chatted on the phone for some time shooting the shit and realized we had met each other at…
Far Rockaway and its sexual tension
The bridge was too narrow for people to work in twos, therefore every time you came upon a group of people you had to go single file and make eye contact for too long to be comfortable. It was unnerving…
How many text messages do you send per month?
I was talking to someone a while back when the topic of text messaging came up, I just recently added 200 text messages to my phone bill for $5, because prior to this people thought I was reciving their messages…
Mac vs. PC
Apparently laptops aren’t supposed to last as long as mine did, due to an ever improving technological environment, normal people buy a new computer every other year. People like me are not conducive to the business model started by the…
What did you do for Purim?
Last years Purim kind of sucked because it was on a Friday, I spent it at my cousins in Monsey and as usual it was fun but not as fun as my yeshiva days, in fact Purim just hasn’t been…
Is public school really like they portray it in the movies?
Due to the fact I never went to public school I have a warped perspective of what its really like. Like most folks who went to yeshiva high school, our visions of what its like to attend public school are…
I saw Barack Obama in shul
Not really but I witnessed someone in shul trying to use his economic policies as a way of controlling some children’s candy profits from an uf-ruf. Upon walking into shul in Baltimore, I witnessed a young married guy with a…