Notes from an American on the other side. Friday, February 5, 2016. Okay, this one is not going to mean much to very many people, but I found two slides of my first car. In 1995, I bought a 1979 VW Golf diesel. Friday, February 05, 2016. I remember an old slogan.

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth. Friday, December 10, 2010. Make a wish on every star.

Political and social commentary from a seat out back. August 31, 2010 by John Messeder. For the weeks leading up to the trip, I would tell people I was going to Hatteras.

Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3. Tuesday, July 07, 2015. Over the summer, I will be reading and reviewing the six novels shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Monday, June 22, 2015.

Languages of Liturgy and Occupation. On December 28, 2012. I grew up on the island of Deer Isle, Maine, where most people are Christian. We have thirteen churches and a population of 3,000; the nearest synagogue is over an hour away in Bangor. At an early age, my practice of Judaism became very personal. Hebrew, too, felt like a personal, spiritual language that I could use to speak to God.