Confessions of a Wandering Jew — Jeffrey S. Wasserman, Ph.D.
Table of Contents
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1 — Starting Where I Am (Chicago: Feb 2009)
2 — A Word of Caution from a Wondering Wanderer (Chicago: Feb 6, 2009)
Wandering the USA: Kentucky-Wisconsin-California-Texas (1967-1976)
3 — Wondering Wanderer (Madison, Wisconsin: 1967)
4 — So Who Is Timothy Leary and What Does He Have to Do With Anything? (Madison: 1968)
5 — Seven Days in May (Madison: 1969) Day 1 - Part I
6 — Day 1 (Madison: May 1969) Part II - Jewish LSD Freak Meets Jesus Freak
8 — Day 3 (Madison: May 1969) - The California Appeal
9 — Day 4 (Iowa: May 1969) - The Wicked Witch of the East
10 — Day 5 (Santa Cruz, California: May 1969) - Communal Life Means Sharing Your Peanut Butter
11 — Day 6 (Santa Cruz: May 1969) - Learning to Laugh
12 — Day 7 (Santa Cruz-May 1969) - Is There a Hangover from Prayer?
13 — Like the Water? Go Navy! (Louisville, Kentucky: July 1969)
14 — A Day in the Sand on the Beach--A Frozen Beach! (Great Lakes, Illinois: Nov 1969)
15 — Wake-up Call from Above (Great Lakes: Nov 1969)
16 — Whistling Is Safer than Singing (Great Lakes: Dec 1969)
17 — ♪♪ On Wisconsin, On Wisconsin ♪♪ (Louisville: Jan 1970)
18 — Chris the Hippie Meets Chris the Hippie! (Madison: 1970)
19 — SDS vs. Christians (Madison: 1970)
20 — Houston, We Have a Problem! (Houston: June 1970)
21 — From Jewish Hippie to Texas Conservative (Houston: June 1970)
22 — Finding Love and War (Houston: 1973)
Wandering Africa: Rhodesia (1976-1979)
23 — Honeymooning In A War Zone (Houston to Rhodesia: 1976)
24 — Two Eggs Boss? You Sure? (Salisbury, Rhodesia: Nov 1976)
25 — Fit or Fat? (Salisbury, Rhodesia: Nov 1976)
26 — A Rhodesian "Rebel" I Loved (Salisbury, Rhodesia: Dec 1976)
27 — Tea with the Judge (Rhodesia: Dec 1976)
28 — The Convoy (Rhodesia: Dec 1976)
29 — No Umbrella for the Rain Forest (Victoria Falls, Rhodesia: Dec 1976)
30 — Avocado on a Hot Tin Roof (Salisbury: Jan 1977)
31 — The Rhodesian Light Infantry (Salisbury: Jan 1977)
32 — Field "Trip" (Salisbury: Jan 1977)
33 — The Interview (Salisbury: Feb 1977)
34 — The Interview, Addendum (Salisbury: Feb 1977)
35 — Reverse Gear and Fast! (Salisbury: March 1977)
36 — Another Colonel In the Church (Salisbury: March 1977)
37 — Stand at attention when you talk to ME! (Salisbury: March 1977)
38 — Pistol-Packin’ Chaplain (Salisbury: March 1977)
39 — The Return of the "Wondering" Wanderer (Salisbury: April 1977)
40 — Unstable and Unreliable (Salisbury: May 1977)
41 — Hugged Instead of Slapped (Salisbury: July 1977)
42 — From Death to Birth (Salisbury: July 1977)
43 — Farm Life in a War Zone (Salisbury & Wedza: Aug 1977)
44 — Tea with Land Mines (Umtali, Rhodesia: Aug 1977)
45 — A Half Bottle of Jack Daniels (Salisbury: Aug 1977)
46 — ♪♪ Paranoia Strikes Deep ♪♪ (Salisbury: Aug 1977) + Addendum: Thoughts on PTSD
47 — A Genuine “Crippled Eagle” (Salisbury: Sep 1977)
48 — Tea with the General (Salisbury: Sep 1977)
49 — Balla Balla, Bulawayo and Matsheumshlope (Rhodesia: Oct 1977)
50 — "Muck" and Mire (Bulawayo: Oct 1977)
51 — War Fever (Bulawayo: Oct 1977)
52 — American Visitors (Bulawayo: Nov 1977)
53 — This Phone May Be Tapped! (Bulawayo: Dec 1977)
54 — Tell Them to Go! (Salisbury: Dec 1977)
55 — The Rebel I Loved and Lost (Bulawayo: April 1978)
56 — “The French Would Sell Their Mothers!” (Bulawayo: April 1978)
57 — Finding Out for Myself (Leaving Rhodesia: May 1978)
Wandering the USA: Texas-Wisconsin-Kentucky (1979-1983)
58 — Are We There Yet? (New York: May 1978)
59 — In Uniform for Church? (Houston: May 1978)
60 — ♪♪ On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin ♪♪ Again! (Jan 1979)
61 — Me a Pastor? (Neshkoro, Wisconsin: Dec 1979)
62 — “Sparks” In Our Ministry (Berlin, Wisconsin: Spring 1980)
63 — The Brothers In Responsibility (Louisville: Spring 1980)
64 — A Brother from Zimbabwe (Louisville: 1980-1981)
65 — Tired of Waiting (Louisville: 1982)
66 — Listen for the Music and Follow It (Louisville: 1983)
Wandering Africa: Zimbabwe (1983-1997)
67 — Back to the Jameson Hotel (Louisville: Nov 1983)
68 — By Train from Johannesburg to Harare (Southern Africa: Dec 1983)
69 — “Kalanyoni” -- The Call of the Bird (Harare, Zimbabwe: Dec 1983)
70 — Colorless Sunday Services (Harare: Dec 1983)
71 — “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (Harare: Dec 1983)
72 — Hitchhiking in Zimbabwe (Harare: Dec 1983)
73 — The Road to Wedza (Zimbabwe: Jan 1984)
74 — Fun and Games with Zimbabwe Immigration (Harare: Jan 1984)
75 — Darkness and FOG (Harare: Jan 1984)
76 — Computer Programmer or Pastor? (Harare: Jan 1984)
77 — Fun and Games with Zimbabwe Immigration—Again!!! (Harare: Jan 1984)
78 — The Beginnings of Ministry (Harare: Feb 1984)
79 — Overturning the Rhodesian Paradigm in a Church (Harare: Feb 1984)
80 — Hold the Rain! (Harare: Mar 1984)
81 — Taking Our Show On the Road
82 — A Tale of Two Phone Calls (Zimbabwe: May 1984)
83 — Detoured from Wedza’s Tobacco Road
84 — The Tobacco Road (Wedza: May 1984)
85 — Under the Big Top (Wedza: July 1984)
86 — “But you were invited!” [Intro] (Wedza: July 1984)
87 — "But, I repeat--you were invited!” (Wedza: July 1984)
88 — All Politics is Local (Wedza: July 1984)
89 — You Don't Understand that God Sent You (Wedza-Harare-Kariba: July 1984)
90 — Contrasting Hearts (Harare: Aug 1984)
91 — Too Much Mutton! (Kariba: Sep 1984)
92 — Where Is Home Anyway? (Kariba: Sep 1984)
93 — The End of the Journal — Not the End of the Journey (USA: Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec 1984)
94 — A Triumphal Return! Uh-oh, another detour . . . (Chicago: July 4, 2013)
95 — Get on with that “Triumphal Return” already! (Zimbabwe: Jan 1985)
96 — Those Polymorph Thingies (Wedza: Feb 1985)
97 — This Is Ridiculous—Another Detour!!! (Chicago: June 2014)
98 — Time to Ponder (Wedza: March 1985)
99 — When All Seemed Promising (Wedza: May 1985)
100 — A decade-long detour. So forgive the reintroduction!
Includes: Harare Having Any Fun Yet? (Harare: Jan 1986)
101 — Another 7 Days in May—This Time in Israel (Tel Aviv, Israel: May 1986)
102 — Abigail! (USA: June 1986)
103 — Stuck in the States (Louisville: Aug-Sep 1986)
104 — Why Are You Traveling to Israel? (Oct 1986)
105 — No Longer Welcome (Harare: Oct 1986)
106 — The Northern Wasteland (Lusaka, Zambia: Nov 1986)
107 — Leaving Africa: 🎶 “Hello, I Must Be Going!” 🎶 (Harare: Nov 1986)
Wandering the USA: Kentucky (1987-1997)
108 — Starting Where I Am Again! (July 4, 2024 -- June 3, 2025)
109 — More Wandering and Wondering (July 2025)
110 — Fond Farewell? (Zimbabwe to Louisville: Spring 1987)
111 — Teaching Myself to Swim (Louisville: Fall 1987)
112 — Treading Water Can Be Pleasant . . . for a While (Louisville: 1987-91)
113 — My Father Told Me a Joke (Louisville: 1991-92)
114 — Hating August (Louisville: 1993)
115 — Don’t Be in a Hurry to Be an Old Man (Written Aug 2025)
Wandering Southeast Asia: Singapore (1997-1999)
116 — Don’t Hurry, But Pick Up the Pace! (Louisville to Singapore: 1991-1999)
Wandering the USA: Chicago (1999-2023)
117 — Meeting the Rabbi (Chicago: Fall 1999)
118 — 🎶 “Teach Your Children Well” 🎶 (Fall 1999)
119 — One Small Step for a Man—A Giant Leap for this "Wasser"-man (Chicago: Fall 1999)
120 — Jewish-ish, Jewish-er — Just Jewish (Chicago: 1999-2022)
No Longer Wandering: ISRAEL (2023 . . . )
121 — Planting My Flag (Israel: Aug 30, 2023)
122 — O Jerusalem! (Israel: Aug 30 - Oct 7, 2023)
123 — The Sum of the Matter (Israel: Hebrew Year 5784)
Afterthoughts
