Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—10/25/10—Ah, stop and smell the roses!  An old and well-patina-ed dictum that is useful to us all. Of course, hearing it and understanding it and…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—10/11/10—“That looks so simple!” Famous last words, if I’ve ever heard them. I have become increasingly attracted to the more pared down, the cleaner, the…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—9/13/10—I couldn’t walk. Well, I could hardly walk. Walking was very painful, so painful that I didn’t want to walk. A week and a half…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/30/10—I’m sitting here at this cramped little counter, with grease slowly dripping down my chin, french fries banging at my left elbow, my neighbor’s hot…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/16/10—When I was much younger, my first wife, Sara, would often say during an argument, and not in a mean way, but rather in a…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—7/26/10—I am only now, in my sixty-third year, beginning to understand the Buddhist dictum of “acceptance.” Not that I’m a Buddhist; nor have I ever…

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—7/12/10—When my wife, Sara, was pregnant with our first child, we moved from New York City to Teaneck, NJ. This was a brilliant move. We…

Squibs and Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—6/28/10—In Aikido, the Japanese self-defense art that I teach and practice, as in many martial arts, students are always admonished to keep ‘beginner’s mind.’  But,…

Squibs and Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—6/14/10—I’m a big fan of Gotham, the Big Apple, New York New York. My parents used to bring my brothers and me to New York…

Squibs and Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—5/24/10—Having had my front yard moderately demolished by the installation of a new sewer line, I was faced with the prospect of revamping my lawn,…