Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Ok, so I disappeared from blogging for a year. I had a baby boy. He is so cute! I have no idea. I am not suggesting that you, dear reader, do anything different professionally, whether or not you are an academic. But I have no regrets about jumping ship.

Musings on Urban Design, Urban Planning and the Built Environment. What is Urban Design? Suburbs may be getting cooler, but they will never, ever be as cool as the city. The suburbs may be getting cooler, but they will never, ever be as cool as the city. I also want to have a nice little tribe of .

Combining a traditional Jewish outlook with a critical perspective on religious and political issues. We humans have always needed cures, whether they are of the body, the mind or the soul. And in our desperation we have turned to the most unlikely of sources and placebos. Every advert for a pharmaceutical drug comes with an obligatory list of rushed-through or minutely printed side effects. They are so frightening that I really do not understand why people insist on taking them.

A tallit-and-tefillin-wearing woman in a traditional Conservative synagogue? An unorthodox and non-orthodox perspective on Jews and Judaism from a perpetual misfit. This blog, welcoming the entire Jewish community, is dedicated to those who take Judaism seriously, but not necessarily literally. Monday, August 10, 2015. And then there were three .