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Remember how we spoke about the traditions that come organically into our lives? Not the forced ones, the real ones. Last night, we went to our dear friend’s for goose dinner, a German tradition in the finest sense. Last year, she had us over and entertained us with a shadow puppet play along with a big fat roast goose and sauerkraut, red cabbage, brussel sprouts, Moroccan Chicken, cous cous, potatoes, and cakes galore. This year…
The President of the United States pressed to repeal the 17-year-old Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and now the Vice President of the United States has said that he expects Gay Marriage is inevitable.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS… JEWS I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is… Jews I wont ask for much this Christmas I dont even wish for snow Just want a Jew who runs show business Speilberg, Stiller Ari Gold I will make a list and send it Of my choices for St. Nick Seinfeld, Zach Braff and…
I sent a text message to my friend who has lost a lot of her family over the last 18 months – two aunts, a mother and a nephew – and told her I was thinking of my mom and knew she must be too. She wrote back that it’s hard hard hard and sad too. If you know someone who has lost someone they love, even though Christmas might not be meaningful to you,…
I called in my anti anxiety pill prescription today – these are my when I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get the thought wheel to stop pills – I take half and go back to nighty night and thoughtless sleep. The woman at the drugstore said someone here says she’ll bring them to you. “Uh, okay,” I said. A half hour later a friend pulled up and handed me my…
The signer is back in City Park putting wooden signs by the dog shit that owners leave behind. For Thanksgiving the message was, “Have a Crappy Thankgsiving!” and for Christmas we have, “Merry White Trash Christmas!” – sometimes the signs are dark like the one that said, “Your Owner is a Loser” or “Thanks For Leaving Your Shit” but mostly they are quite humorous and seasonal in their message. What is the thing about people…
When I was walking through the park this morning on this chilly December morning bearing some resemblance to winter, I thought to myself, maybe I keep losing all these things because I’m being tested about my nonattachment endorsements. I lost all my favorite clothes and vintage Wonder Woman shirts in Croatia because…, I lost all my 8900 Ipod songs (recovered most now) because…, I lost all the pottery I bought at Pepperwood Pottery after years…
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism. -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978). Um excuse me while I divagate but on the subject of gold and China buying it – China has since the beginning of the 2000s started to stock pile gold and to trade with Russia in its…
I have many traditions that I honor even though I am more secular Jew than not – I light the menorah every night of Hanukkah, I eat matzo during Passover, I fast for Yom Kippur, and eat honey and apples on Rosh Hashanah. I have given up needing turkey on Thanksgiving and pretty much the need to cook most of the meal. I just like to gather with loved ones and feast. For my mother’s…
T square is enroute home having jumped through the last hurdle – the flight from Atlanta to New Orleans – and so in a little bit over an hour, they will touch ground. Yippee. Look how much Tin aged while he was gone::::::