Thanks everyone!

We have a High Holiday prayer book and my husband and I hold our own services in the living room. We read as much or as little as we want, at whatever time we feel like it, and discuss various spiritual issues. We both get dressed up.

We cook a nice meal or dessert together. It's traditional to eat an apple dipped in honey or a honey cake for a sweet year This year I baked an apple cobbler with honey, raisins and almonds. It's already gone! I'm glad I don't count calories.

I used to love to attend services, but my husband didn't so the home services were sort of a compromise. It's been maybe 10 years since I've been to a synagogue High Holiday Service.

Being raised Jewish was always very important to me, but my theology no longer fits into a neat little package. I gave up formalized religion years ago. I still follow religious traditions which resonate with me, but have given up others which seem dissonent. The advantage to being unaffiliated is that I choose what has meaning to my life, and don't feel I need to apologize about what I no longer believe in.

I like most of the customs associated with this holiday, and the meaning of the holiday itself. The Jewish New Year is when we take stock of our lives and try to make ourselves better. It's a lot more serious than the secular new year.