The Armchair Traveller by Dee Turbon, Scotland Edward sits with the curtains open, sits in the sunlight, his chair placed just so, and he wears dark glasses and drinks chianti from a dirty tumbler. On the television is a programme about Venice and lots of views of canals, and the […]

LOVE & HEARTBREAK Matthew Seamus Fantsy grew up in a leafy neighbourhood of Boston. His parents were right off the boat, they had come to America like so many generations of Irish before them. Their brogues became softer and softer with the rising tides of their real estate business. And […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Everyone came to their wedding, everyone in the community and all her relatives from Israel, Monsey, England and Russia, and other Rabbanim from epicenters of study and leadership. He had never seen so many hats […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” You were in a dream I had. I was buying candles for Chanukah at a supermarket and they huddled in a molten grey lump at the bottom of my shopping cart. The front wheel […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” These words I put on paper What do they mean? A window in to my soul Perhaps, so it may seem. Words of hope, fear, and love But are there words of God above? […]

topic: DREAMS medium: TEXT So, great expectations. I’m not a particularly imaginative person, so in pouring forth my thoughts on these two words for the next five minutes, I’ll take inspiration from a) Paris, b) my love life or lack thereof, and c) my job, which together probably account for […]