In Chapter 3 of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin describes his work identifying…
Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham
Gershon Ben-Avraham is an American-Israeli writer. He lives in Beersheba, Israel, on the edge of the Negev Desert. He and his wife share their lives with a gentle blue-merle long-haired collie and a crazy wild rescued kitten. Ben-Avraham earned an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University. His short story “Yoineh Bodek” (Image) received “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize XLlV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition. Kelsay Books published his chapbook “God’s Memory” in 2021. ברסלב
One of the distinct pleasures of travel is the opportunity to eat and to drink…
This past weekend, I visited, for the first time, a tropical rainforest, one near San…
I was eleven years old when my mother enrolled me in the Boy Scouts of…
Once, after accompanying my wife to the train station, I got lost walking home. Fortunately,…
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Do you believe in ghosts, shades, spirits? Do you think you have a soul that…
Many times, so it seems to me, we feel as if our generation was the…
From Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45: …
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