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Biting off more than I can chew
Well, this past Shabbat I really did it to myself! I volunteer for my synagogue in a number of capacities, and the main role I have is as one of four volunteers, fondly nicknamed the Yad Squad. Yad mean hand in Hebrew, and it can refer to a pointing tool used by those who chant…
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Letting go of Christmas
I was never a very good Christian. The main problem was that I was always asking for logic and internal consistency. I couldn’t understand why a monotheistic faith had divided God into a Trinity, for one thing. And the Virgin birth? The Resurrection? The answer was always “You have to have Faith” and “It’s God’s…
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We got a dog!
Welcome to Boxer! So far, he’s been a very easy – going addition to the family (he’s asleep at the foot of our bed as I write this).
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End of the holiday season…
This past week marked the end of a string of holidays/Holy Days, starting with Rosh HaShanah on September 24 (actually, starting earlier, with Selichot on September 20, for me, but for many observant Jews, the preparatory month of Elul before is part of the experience). Anyway, we finally wrapped it up, with the exuberant, music…
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Relating to those older than me…
I can’t remember a time when old people weren’t a crucial presence in my life. My earliest recollection is of flying across the Atlantic Ocean, and the flight hit a bumpy patch. I would have been 2 1/2 years old, or so, and I vividly remember sitting in my mother’s lap, and then suddenly being…
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I have OKCupid to thank…
For my daughter finding and marrying the man who suits her to a T. and apparently, the data of the OKCupid algorithms predicted their compatibility and bliss pretty well, as they scored around 95%, according to her. It’s a funny thing to see your daughter get married, and then to see her happily interacting with…
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What a weekend!
Saturday was Yom Kippur (which actually started Friday night). Sunday I ran my first 5k in a few years (with no training beforehand). This is me, wearing my Mollybethalon running shirt from 2013 (when I did not run 4.4miles – or km – whatever it was…because I was with J, and he didn’t want to…
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Little things
Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow evening, and kicks off about a month of holidays and lots of cooking. No time for writing looks posts, but here’s a short reflection. We have a charging station in our garage for our electric cars. Yesterday, I found it like this: Notice the looped cord? This image makes me happier.…
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Flying standby
My first flight on my own, at the age of sixteen, I remember flying standby. This was on the recommendation of my aunt, who I was going to visit for an indefinite stay in London, England. She told me she always flew standby, because it was cheaper, and that was definitely a selling point to…
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Leaving town…
I’m going out of town for three whole days. This is the second time that I’ve left the boys since we brought them home, and J is not liking it at all (S is so independent, he minds less, although he did express the odd concern that I might be flying to somewhere unsafe, i.e.…
