Parenting; Parenthood

When you’re feeling sad, do you go to your father or to your mother? Is it transcendence that you seek, or the solacing embrace that assures us that nothing is meaningless, that everything we are and feel can be borne, inhabited and redeemed?

The first Jewish President of America was elected. Naturally, his first step was to call his Mother: "Mama, I've won the elections, you've got to come to the inauguration!" "I don't know. What would I wear?" "Don't worry, Mama, I'm going to be president, ...