When I was in my thirties I asked a twenty year old where he went to dance and he asked me, “Techno, Jungle or House?” And I said, “Huh?” T had a few of her students over for a little get together and I asked them what they are listening to and what they are dancing to. They’re listening to Shoe Gaze music – say what – yeah, you got it, gazing at your shoe…
I remember when I married my first husband, a Catholic boy who converted to Judaism to be in my family, we went to a reform synagogue on Esplanade Avenue. I remember being almost physically ill by the woman playing the cello, the books that read from left to right, the absence of Hebrew, the absence of yamulkas, the absence of all I knew to be Judaism having grown up in an orthodox household. A long…
A thousand years ago Steve and I bought a Nolli Plan and planned to use it in many different places and it has wound up being one of those things you schlepp here and there but that never gets used. In rethinking our newly launched lifestyle, Steve relinquished his hold on the Nolli plan, and I turned it over to Tatjana to create our headboard/art piece/Rome map wallpaper. She’s busy at work on this project…
After school yesterday, Tin and I walked to the Soraparu playground where the other kids were playing and in comparison, he looked so tiny! Usually I don’t take him there because it is that time of day when the older kids are playing and they tend to be rough and tumble. A mother asked me how old Tin is and I said two and a half, and she said he looks like he’s barely old…
I was speaking to a dear friend and ex colleague the other day and he said, “Rachel, come on you have to admit that you have the personality that makes people either love you or hate you. Most of us love you.” I laughed, because that was what was appropriate at the moment but then you think ok what would it be about me that would make someone hate me. And then you think, who…
My mom had a radar that was often times frustrating as hell because she would make snap assessments of people even though she was wide open and loving towards most, there were some people she just didn’t like one bit at all. Not one bit. Then again, there were some people she worshipped and one of those happens to be coming here for Thanksgiving. Yee ha. I stole this off her Facebook site this morning…
Should we go out? Since we’ve been sick and all. Maybe we shouldn’t. I don’t know. Let’s see how we feel. Right, we have a babysitter lined up. What do you think, go out, stay in? Go out; are they going to go? Yes, they said so. Wait, no they can’t. Wait, yes they can. Ok. Let’s go. I didn’t want to just drop right in on where we are standing in the middle of…
Okay, someone pinch me because today has opened up a panorama landscape of wonderland. I told my neighbor that honestly, I was so scared of what was on the other side of Door #3 that I sat quaking in my boots and now, I’m like HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH! That’s true. I wanted to share my glee but bit my tongue today because it’s impolite to be immodest. But I spoke to three business prospects and…
I dreamed last night of a little ship in a bottle floating in a sea of purple, perhaps spurred on by too much Dr. Seuss of late, but what was interesting is how the ship was a bit catawampus even while the purple gelatinous substance was shimmering and staid. What was it that Warren Buffet said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,…