Gassing Up: Still the Story of My Life, But With a Twist If you substitute OMD for OOD, much of this post still pertains today. The arrangement I have with OMD, the same arrangement I had with OOD and OYS, is that so long as she drops me off at the...

Tales From the Front 1. Yesterday I spent the morning on the fixed income trading desk of the New York headquarters of a major international bank. The good news is that the place was hopping, like back in the good old days. (It hasn't exactly been...

Ikvisah D'Mishicha Tootsie Rolls are now certified by the OU.

Worrying About "Worrying" I have recently read a number of articles, mostly on the economy, that used the word "worrying" in a way that I'm not sure is correct. Similarly, I've seen and heard the word "concerning" used in the same, possibly...

Black Black and Whites On Sunday morning, I went to Gourmet Glatt to buy some things for a tikun for my father's yahrtzeit. I bought some herring, some rugalach, a mandel bread and some crackers. As I was picking up the baked goods at the Zomicks...