Breathing Out Stars Podcast

30/10/2024

https://lesliecoff.substack.com/p/intrepid

21/10/2024

https://lesliecoff.com/the-sultans-favorite/

So there I was, sitting in Izmir, Turkey, overlooking the sea. I love the Aegean. Yeah, in my own mind. The truth is I was not at the Aegean yesterday. I was not in Turkey. I was with Asli, a daugh…

05/10/2024

Some of you have not heard the story of The Elk and The Eruv. Enjoy.

A few years ago, when our three kids were teens and older, we decided to take them all on that iconic drive to the Big West….Deadwood, South Dakota, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons….the sort of thing you…

27/09/2024

http://lesliecoff.com/the-sweet-jar-episode-11/

(Transcription from Breathing Out Stars podcast – September 2020) This week has been our holiday:  the beginning of the new year 5781.  Normally we think of this time of year to reassess who we have been as people. Normally in August —for decades now —I begin thinking about who I have be...

04/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/i-gave-my-best-to-you-and-the-bridge?r=2b114t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Pieced from Episode 12, Breathing Out Stars Podcast

02/07/2024

I don't know what will happen next. But I do know that it is time to share this again.

When I was seven years old, I won an award at Girl Scout camp for fire building. We were, with fire pits all lined up in a row, supposed to build a fire that would catch quickly, (a one-match fire as the cool kids used to say), rise quickly, and burn through a length of rope that was suspended sever...

17/03/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/the-uninvited-guests?r=2b114t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

“Now! Now! Have no fear. Have no fear!” said the cat.

06/03/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/the-small-miracle-of-the-hyacinths?r=2b114t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

a little nourishment goes a long way -- for all of us.

27/09/2023

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/the-extra-baby-and-repair?r=2b114t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

A few months ago I learned a story about a man I have known for forty-five years. While he was growing up, as he learned about the Holocaust, he dreamed that one day he would have a family of his own – that he would have two children – plus an extra baby -- to replace those who had been lost in ...

17/09/2023

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/spam-and-pomegranates?r=2b114t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Whereas Mystery Meat and Blessings find a way to be together.

04/09/2023

https://open.substack.com/pub/lesliecoff/p/the-sweet-jar-episode-11?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Breathing Out Stars Podcast - Transcribed

25/05/2023

Some people are good at tennis. I am not. I do have a special, innate skill in fire-building.

23/05/2023

Back when I had a radio show called The Medicine Mix, I invited a rabbi, a pastor and a surgeon onto the show…so we could discuss prayer and healing. After the show was over, we were still talking about it in the elevator down to our cars.

15/08/2022

I thought I knew what to expect. But boy was I surprised.

Sure I knew what to expect. I’d been there before. The lesson for me: fate will surprise you.

15/08/2022

Sure I knew what to expect. I’d been there before. The lesson for me: fate will surprise you.

03/07/2022

it is said that prayer is the highest form of rebellion -- you are daring to ask for a different world.

11/03/2022

A podcast is an art form – filled with heart and dreams and intellect and color and sound editing. And reality. Things are pretty real right now. It's not a time I feel like being funny. This is a time to feel things.

10/02/2022

It’s not enough to just get COVID. Let’s add fifty more limitations on top of that — or just feel like you have. It’s just Whack-A-Mole.