Don’t cry over spilled rice

There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.  Is that a lot or a little?  If one lives for eighty years, that is a bit more than 2.5 billion seconds.  Is that a lot or a little? Most people have thought that life is too short.  When old age arrives, though, and if it brings serious […]

A Serious Man – an existentialist movie?

We just saw “A Serious Man” in English at one of our local theaters,  in a sparsely attended screening.  We tend to be more than a year behind in our viewing of films.  Now I have read seven or eight reviews of the movie.  I don’t want to say too much about it until I […]