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Almost 6 months since I posted here
I'm not sure what happened here. Well, yes, I take it back, I am quite sure what happened. I discovered facebook is what happened. Well today is my birthday, and I decided to give myself a present Update the old blog. Start a new, very specifically focused blog, and just generally start challenging myself with more than farmville and bejeweled ( Read more... ) -
Michael Jackson, Jon & Kate, and how to save Darfur
My friend, Rayzel, posed the question on Facebook, "Why does Michael Jackson get more attention than Darfur?" At first I posited a flippant response that we are a very sick society, and that explains it. However, the more I think about it, the more I think that there has to be more to it than that. I made a joke that even "Jon & Kate" get more ( Read more... ) -
The Ten Rules of Raspberry Picking
I composed this today, after my second day of berry-picking with my daughter ( Read more... ) -
The kindness of strangers. Amazing!
I will never forget this as long as I live ( Read more... ) -
Freaking out and scared.
I was substitute teaching at a local public high school yesterday, and I overheard a senior student talking about his basketball coach. He said, "I hate him. He's such a Jew." To say that I was shocked would be the understatement of the century. Not insulted. Not offended. Just shocked and horrified. Because you see, this particular coach is ( Read more... ) -
Told ya so!
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Pronunciation
As a kid, I always hated my given name (still do, actually, I prefer to go by my Hebrew name) because it contains a phoneme that is not found in many languages and is usually one of the last to develop in native English speakers: the "th" sound. All my life, I loved babysitting, taking care of little kids, and it was always frustrating that little ( Read more... ) -
Chuck Lorre
At the end of every episode of every TV show, the producers have something called a "Vanity Card." It's usually a standard graphic that's the same every week, like the cat meowing like the MGM lion at the end of the old Mary Tyler Moore show, or "Sit, Ubu, Sit" at the end of Family Ties. But there is one writer/producer named Chuck Lorre (He was ( Read more... ) -
2 degrees of Bernie Madoff. . .Or how my family lucked out. . . .
We had my parents over for dinner Friday night when I found out something pretty shocking. My dad knew Bernie Madoff. I had overheard bits and pieces of conversations about it over the last couple of months, so at dinner, I just asked him about it point blank. He didn't know him well, but it turned out that one of my dad's girlfriends in high ( Read more... )