Before I can start talking about PE, I need to explain a couple of things. When I was in elementary school (fifth grade, I think), I came down with pneumonia. I believe I missed an entire month of school. The teacher had all the kids in my class send me get well cards, which I…
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Suprise Me
PE and other Sorrows
Prompted By PE Pleasures and Perils
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Before I can start talking about PE, I need to explain a couple of things. When I was in elementary school (fifth grade, I think), I came down with pneumonia. I believe I missed an entire month of school. The teacher had all the kids in my class send me get well cards, which I…
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Yad Vashem
Prompted By Finding Your Tribe
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Yad Vashem I’m not a religious person but I’ve always been proud to be Jewish and deeply connected to my faith – and moreso when I’m in Israel. The summer before he graduated from high school, my son Noah spent 6 weeks there at a scouting program run by the Israeli army called Chetz V’Keshet…
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Home Ahead of my Time
Prompted By Going to Work
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I was ready to go on my own, with my office in my apartment--my studio apartment.
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A Timely Postscript
Prompted By Remembering Radios
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Some dates are more memorable than others.
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Two Family Treasures
Prompted By What I Own That's Older Than I Am
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I probably have other more valuable things that are older than I am, but these are the two I treasure the most.
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A Thousand Little Touches
Prompted By Marriage
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A Thousand Little Touches My father – six years older than my mother – died in his early 80s. (See My Dad and the Word Processor, Saying Farewell to a Special Guy, Six Pack, My Father, the Outsider Artist, GP and Turkey and Trimmings with Flu Shot) My mother, who it seemed had never been sick…
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Poetry in Motion
Prompted By Poetry
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There are many poets whose work I cherish. For instance, Robert Frost. I can easily recite all four stanzas of “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and most of “The Road Not Taken,” although I don’t recall ever intentionally trying to memorize them. I love anything by e. e. cummings. I don’t know any…
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Untitled
Prompted By S#*t My Family Said
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The Good, The Bad, Even Some Ugly
Prompted By A Year in the Life
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If I may steal from Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. 2017 had a lot of both, beginning with the still surreal inauguration of the Orange Monster. I keep thinking he has struck a new low, but he keeps surprising me. I made sure to stay occupied and…
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Ancient Canaanite
Prompted By Genealogy
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Last November, my brother copied me on an email which shared the results of a 23andMe DNA analysis (since we have the same parents, we share the same DNA; yes, I know, we are not identical twins, so we do not have exactly the same DNA, but would have similar threads, so the results are…
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