Luke Ford says:
The rabbinic commentator Ramah said about accusations of adultery that women are believed (if they confess to adultery). The assumption is if the woman says it, it must be true, because it would be too embarrassing to lie about.
That’s no longer true.
Twenty years ago, a public accusation of adultery would end a rabbi’s [...]
Luke Ford says:
I’m reading a terrific book addressing this question — Freedom to Change by Frank Pierce Jones, a professor of Classics at Brown University and a teacher of Alexander Technique.
From page two: “For the Alexander Technique doesn’t teach you something new to do. It teaches you how to bring more practical intelligence into what [...]
Luke Ford says:
I’m reading a terrific book addressing this question — Freedom to Change by Frank Pierce Jones, a professor of Classics at Brown University and a teacher of Alexander Technique.
From Appendix A: “John Dewey once said that the reason F.M. Alexander’s teaching had appealed to him in the first place was not that it [...]
Luke Ford says:
Despite a stomach bug, I interviewed by phone Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru Wednesday evening, Jan. 13, 2010, about his 2009 book Big Boy Rules.
Luke: “Tell me about the impact of 9/11 upon you personally and professionally.”
Steve: “It had a profound impact. When it happened, I was in Washington. I was covering sports… [...]
Donna Burstyn says: So what happens to a blended family when the family doesn’t blend? It’s hard to imagine people raised in different atmosphere getting married. I think it’s more of a miracle that people stay married than not. Given that people grow up in different countries, different cultures, different religions, different viewpoints, different personalities, [...]
Luke Ford says:
I know what you’re thinking. The Moral Leader, he could never relate to a sinner like me. The Leader lives on such a high plane, he’s achieved such a resounding victory over the Satan, he could never understand the struggles of a wicked creature such as myself. The Leader, he lives his life [...]
Luke Ford says:
“You see the end of things right from the beginning,” says his therapist.
He’s jolted. “My previous therapist said that,” he says. “Not the one before you, but the one before the one before you. She said I was always prepared for loss. That I always expected the teat to go dry. That I’d [...]
Luke Ford says:
There’s one genre of movies that always turns me on — underdog sports dramas. I love them.
I watched The Rookie (about Jim Morris) tonight (about four years after I watched it the first time).
I was struck about how it plays on common movie themes — the need for the protagonist to be validated [...]
Luke Ford says:
I have not noticed a change. When you write something that affects people, you will get feedback and pressure in direct relationship to the importance of what you write. I started getting death threats in 1997.
I found that over the years, people got smarter in how they reacted to me. It became more [...]
Luke Ford says:
A Christian woman says while I am in the room: “I was nine years old when WWII ended. We lived in France. We knew about the concentration camps. We knew someone who survived the concentration camps. And even then, I felt sorrier for the people running the camps than the people in them. [...]
