Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...

Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...

"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...

In the eyes of my parents, I was a strange boy. When vacation time came around I was out looking for work while my friends sunbathed at...

I'd started with a bag full of marbles and ended with two. I kicked my feet against the wall, shifting my last two glass pebbles from one...

Once again an insult brought me self-understanding, the most important achievement of a human being. I had handed my iPhone with the...

There they lie. The earliest inhabitants of Krugersdorp and the latest, row after row of black granite stones with names and dates carved...

The first time in my life that I set eyes on a dead human being was a month ago in Toronto. Raymond’s wife had told me he was in the...

Tues 14th Dec 2021 Evelyn now used a walker. Holding on to it, she came to the door and there I stood. After not seeing her for about 2...

My love for Hebrew was certainly aroused by my feelings of affection for two teachers in the first years of school, Mrs. Kobrin and Rev....

I was kept in bed by a memory of the first girl, besides my mother, whom I ever loved. As long as I lay, my head buried in my soft...

The daily order of events took an ominously different turn after I began walking, my knapsack on my back, I’d left out my task of...

I let her walk out of my life. Now her memory is in my mind forever. That was in about 1964. I even remember that it was in September or...