I gotta say, I am really happy with our new rabbi. She gives good sermon; she tries really hard to pay attention to detail; she rolls with the punches. When she asked me to lead a thing/sing something on a page for which I had no notes, and I had no idea what she was talking about, she came over and looked at the outline with me, and admitted ( Read more... )

First of all, I appreciate the meme that indicates the Coronavirus is all a product of Zoom - they sure are the right answer to the self-isolating problem, better than many others out there (though not the only solution for all ( Read more... )

Things that got done today ( Read more... )

It's Hannukah again, which means time to fry up some delicious dinners! First night was dinner and party at shul, second night was at home, third night was Christmas Eve dinner at Carmen's, and tonight is the fourth night.

First night: almost total bust. Shul advertised latkes, salmon, and sufganiyot. I admit, I wanted neither the potato nor ( Read more... )

Important note: it is really critical that I eat before opening Christmas presents with the two boys. Once present-opening starts, it'll take a while, and then there is the playing, and dealing with the mess, and then it's been an hour or more and I will still have not eaten after a late night and I am incapable of maintaining a good mood with ( Read more... )

You know, I am a mom, I am a wife, I live in a house that I've lived in for many years, but still, being with my parents is still "going home." I never lived in their current house with them: they moved into this place maybe 15 years ago. Doesn't matter ( Read more... )

I was so focused on being unprepared and nervous for my bit that I didn't think about the other people presenting and what I would be learning or hearing tonight. (Then again, I had no idea if I would be hearing any of the other people, or if we were each doing concurrent sessions and therefore only hearing ourselves ( Read more... )

I covered the counters this year with an opened laid-flat cardboard box from a printer. It fit the counter perfectly in all of its dimensions except for being about 8 inches too short; I added a few more pieces from some other box, and my entire long counter was covered in a material that wouldn't move around, shred, or get holes from moving ( Read more... )

Twas the night before Pesach ( Read more... )

1. Yesterday afternoon, as I was waiting for convocation to end and the reception to start, I wrote out my reflections on the Hospitality Suite. I tried to do it Tuesday night but got about nowhere. Wednesday night I didn't even try. Yesterday, having quiet time away from a computer seemed to do the trick. Having gotten a goodly bit written ( Read more... )