Remember how conflicted I felt over receiving money via Gayle's death? I think I found a way to put it to good use.

My friend Matjames Metson is a starving artist who love love loves his dogs. One of his dogs, Boris, ate a Kong toy. Over the past few weeks there have been a series of vet trips -- some frantic. While there has been progress, ( Read more... )

I was close. Gayle died at 10:30 tonight.

Holy cats am I overdue for updating pictures. Let's get to it:

( aaronbenedict's trip to Pittsburgh )

Gut yontif, one and all.

If I were Observant, everything I'm doing right now would be considered wrong -- typing, using electronics ... but at the moment, the only things that feel really wrong are that I'm not at a seder, and that I have to be apart from aaronbenedict for three days ( Read more... )

Slowly but surely, I'm getting the last few months' worth of pictures uploaded to LJ. Here, then is September:

( Labor Day )

Things have been nuts. Instead I'll post pictures:

( Polish Hill sunset )

from: http://quakerclass.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-privilege-do-you-have.html

and based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you ( Read more... )

I'll post the pictures from LaKeisha's going away party in a separate post (and half of those are still in my camera anyway).

So here's some other stuff:

( Jacob and Tino )

While searching the New York Times for the obituary of a friend of my aunt's, I stumbled upon the obituary of someone else: Victor Rabinowitz.

Victor Rabinowitz was my friend Joni's father. Joni is an Antiochian from the 60s, and was the recipient of the 2002 Horace Mann Award. For those non-Antiochians out there, the Horace Mann Award is given to ( Read more... )

( Me in the HBA Office )