Our Christmas tradition is to go to a movie with my daughter-in-law's family, then go out for Chinese: a very Jewish Christmas. We've done it now for years, surely: at least every year since John and Pam came home from living in Germany for three-and-a-half years. That would be 2013, if I recall correctly. At any rate, long enough to be an ( Read more... )

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I woke up this morning feeling miserable. That how my mornings usually start; I am not a morning person. Today is different. It's almost 2:00 p.m., and I still feel morning-miserable. There is nothing particularly wrong with me except for a few seconds of vertigo. It must be nearly a year since I last experienced vertigo, and this one was much ( Read more... )

The shortest day of the year. In Philadelphia, full dark a little after 5:00 p.m., barely light at 7:00 a.m. I enjoy being tucked away comfortably in my hidey-hole all those dark hours; it's such a cozy feeling. However, I am also thankful that I am retired and seldom have to leave the house while the sun is not yet up ( Read more... )

I never posted yesterday. I picked up a book ("His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik) around 9:00 p.m. and started reading. At 3:00 a.m., I decided I better go to bed if I wanted to go to my sister's for lunch later in the day. It wasn't until I was snuggling down in my comfy bed, that I remembered I hadn't posted. Too late at that point: 19 ( Read more... )

I did it: I missed posting yesterday. Plain old just forgot. My only excuse is that I was sleep-deprived and not highly functional. Oh well, I'll make it up by posting 1 January 2019 ( Read more... )

Right here, today, if I hadn't promised myself I'd post every day in December, you wouldn't be hearing from me. Not much happened today. I had a very enjoyable lunch with Ellen, my financial adviser. Enjoyable but not news-worthy. So I decided to update you on what the living area of my one-bedroom apartment looks like now ( Read more... )

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My honorary niece, Karen, and her nephew, Jon, came over to see my apartment this evening, and then we all went out to eat at Pizza Vetri.


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Samantha and Susan slept here Saturday night, then drove to East Brunswick, NJ yesterday to introduce Sam to Susan's parents and brother. Sam turned up here a little after noon today and napped until she had to leave for the airport for her 6:00 p.m. flight to San Diego ( Read more... )