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Ready for boarding!
We’re at National Airport, remarkably an hour before our flight, and the boys are very excited about being here. They’re gazing out the window at the planes on the runway.
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Can’t wait to jump in the pool
This spring I’ve been behind with everything. It’s very frustrating, but especially with two areas of life/activity that are dependent on the weather – gardening and our swimming pool. It suddenly got hot! 90 degrees today, and nothing would feel better at the end of a day like this than to jump in the cool…
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Oops!
Passover got in the way of a lot of life this year. I wasn’t ready for it (not that I ever am, but this year I was particularly unready). My discomfiture was compounded by a lot of things going on at work, and resulted in just my bring completely overwhelmed. No time for reflection, despite…
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And the verdict is…
Hurray!! We have light and AC! No wifi, phone, or TV yet, but what a relief to have light!! Thanks to all of you who offered assistance and moral support, and to all our fellow-power-deprived friends – hoping you’re up and running now, or very soon. We can offer laundry, now, or refuge. But call…
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Getting silly while doing homework
So, not even wanting to go to the thoughts that I have about why my kindergartener is being assigned regular weekly homework… (another time for that rant!) It was Tuesday night, and the homework is always due on Thursday. We’d completed about half of it on Sunday and Monday (we almost never get started before…
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Harry Belafonte
I haven’t posted in awhile, but have had all kinds of thoughts brewing in my head…looking back at my last post, Mishpacha & Me, I am thinking more and more of the connections that I have to Harry Belafonte, a wonderful singer, whose music was a soundtrack to a lot of my happiest childhood moments.…
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Mishpacha & Me
I spent an hour today at J’s preschool, attending their annual program, “Mishpacha & Me”. Mishpacha means family in Hebrew, and my first connection to the word was from a Harry Belafonte album, “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall”, when he includes the word in the song “Mama Looka Boo Boo Day” (and he does a lovely…
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Away from boys, #3
I flew to London for a 4-day weekend (thanks to frequent flyer miles!). I’m on the first leg of my return, writing this post. As always, we prepped the boys starting a couple of days ahead. This trip would be the longest I’ve been away – each trip has incrementally been slightly longer. I left…
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Meredith Monk
I regularly listen to the APM program On Being hosted by Krista Tippett, and I often listen to both the produced/edited podcast, as well as the uncut interview. This program was fascinating, but I actually enjoyed the unedited interview more than the produced show – I have to admit that I had the same reaction…
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An unexpected benefit of implementing EMR
This blog has been mostly a place for me to record my life with boys, but here’s a completely different subject, just for a change: On January 3 of this year, the clinic I work in went “live” with an EMR – electronic medical record system. Our entire university medical campus is slowly implementing the…
