No, I'm not really stoned, but my kidneys are.  I thought I was done with this problem. Two and a half years ago when I had a kidney stone, I told myself that I would do everything in my power to make sure that I never got one again.  Well, here I am now kicking myself for not taking my vitamins that are supposed to help prevent these very stones ( Read more... )

I never liked math, so really, anything with numbers was usually something I avoided. Someone once told me that math was useful in daily life, and my response was usually, "yeah, but that's what calculators are for." Something I cannot deny, however, is that there are numerical patterns in other things besides math text books. The Torah has ( Read more... )

I could talk about the Shabbat Sheva Brachot with Ronen's crazy religiously mixed family, or how great the food was, or how many Marzipan Ruggelach I ate, or how Liz's mom-in-law wants lots of little apples; but really I think the trip was too long ago to  hold anyone at interest... including myself.  So, to sum it up, Israel was amazing - it made ( Read more... )