The following was sent to me by a friend of my mother's. I love it!!! I think my favorite line is, "Should I smite them?"On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open ( Read more... )

YES mother I am finally updating you can stop nagging me on my Facebook wall ( Read more... )

As of last Sunday I am 26 years old, which now doesn't seem quite so old as it did when I was anticipating the birthday a few weeks ago. Last year was a milestone birthday - I could supervise an unlicensed driver, rent a car at the lower rate, and generally be moved into the next higher age bracket in statistical questions (most things group ages ( Read more... )

The news last week that Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) had passed away saddened me more than I expected. I feel badly that I didn't even realize she was sick. I heard about it when my clock radio started up at the usual time that morning, playing the local "80s, 90s and now" station which has a cute morning show of amusing but usually ( Read more... )

I've had a fascination recently with thought process and decision-making, both examining how I do it in my own life and how others around me seem to do it. I've had a few opportunities in the last month, when presented with a perplexing situation (mostly though group e-mail), to think about my response and in most cases bounce some ideas off a ( Read more... )

A little while ago I decided to write up a list of all the weddings I have attended in my life, and then got onto listing all the weddings I have heard about or seen pictures from (mostly through Facebook) within my circle of friends. This led into counting up the babies that have resulted from those marriages, and the current engagements I know ( Read more... )

I survived the residency, and we finished the piece, and even got it to where it feels almost comfortable. There are no longer any "panic moments" when we can't remember what's next, and we're remembering the notes we got earlier in the week ( Read more... )

My dance company is doing a residency with the Pascal Rioult Dance Theater, an incredible modern company in New York. One of Rioult's dancers, Stacey, is here for a week teaching us this crazy intense piece called "Wien" (Vienna) about people fighting to survive amid oppression and unrest in the years between the two world wars. There is a video ( Read more... )

Sarah and I went to see Tracy Chapman on Saturday night at the Calvin in Northampton, MA. Oh WOW what a concert!!! Our seats were about halfway back but the theater is great and you can see well from anywhere. And with such a liberal crowd full of Birkenstocks and tie-dye it was great to feel the energy (this concert was partially to console us ( Read more... )

Back from California after a wonderful but short trip home for Nana's memorial service. I was blown away by how many people came!! I got to hug more people than I can even count, SO many dear friends and family who I haven't seen in years. It was wonderful, made me so pleased to see how loved Nana was. I knew she had affected many people's ( Read more... )