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A great deal of our "at home" time these days is spent wedding planning. To be fair, My Tender Beast does more of this than I do, and ze is the master of the spread sheets. I, I do not have nearly the relationship to spreadsheets that ze does, but I take direction relatively well, and can be trusted to do tasks within a couple of days of the ( Read more... )

My richest Jewish learning experiences to date have been in small groups studying Talmud. First with my rabbi, and then with my very fabulous Talmud shiur. It was with the second that i first read the parts of Kiddushin that relate to marriage. It's not a comforting, warms-the-heart feel good kind of read.

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Saturday morning, while I was walking in the rain, already feeling under the weather, a bird shit on my head. The bird really aimed well, landing a full load on the back of my head and neck. My mother use to tell us such events were lucky, and my Tender Beast said so too. Frankly however, as i stood on the side walk, damp from the rain and now the ( Read more... )

Sweet and hot would not be the two words i would pick to describe my summer so far, but i am optimistic about them being the words for much of August. Optimism's like that, it keeps you going when experience lets you down. They are however words that are the beginning part of a proposal, a proposal that is sweet and hot, and one that offers ( Read more... )