One Question Hovers Over All

When You Hit The Unimaginable, The Only Answer Is Imaginativeness. You Have To Heal With The Person That You're Suffering With. You Have To Write A New Chapter In Your Story. A Relationship Can Be A Sacred Thing, But It's Going To Be Difficult. There Are Going To Be Challenges. You Are Going To Have Pain. But Working It Through And Being Resilient Is As Sacred And Meaningful As Having A "hollywood" Romance.

I Grew Up As A Fifth-generation Jew In The American South, At The Confluence Of Two Great Storytelling Traditions. After Graduating From Yale In The 1980s, I Moved To Japan. For Young Adventure Seekers Like Myself, The White-hot Japanese Miracle Held A Similar Appeal As Russia In 1920s Or Paris In The 1950s.

We're In A Hyper-connected World, And There's A Crisis Of Connection. The First Thing That God Says About Woman And Man In The Bible Is That It's Not Right For Humans To Be Alone. Social Media Interaction Cannot Take The Place Of Face-to-face Interaction. If Anything, It Prevents Us From Doing That. We're Staring Into Our Screens For So Long That We're Forgetting To Look At The People Directly In Front Of Us.

Take A Walk With A Turtle. And Behold The World In Pause.

Tired Of Nagging Your Kids To Hurry Up, Get Dressed, Drink Their Milk And Brush Their Teeth? Here's A Radical Idea: Don't.