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Who Was Jesus?
December 19, 2012
Provocative title, no? This post-menopausal Jewish woman has been around a long time, but unfortunately, not quite long enough to give you a first-hand account of the true story about Judaism’s most famous son. (Jewish moms today dream of their sons becoming doctors, but Mary put to shame the ubiquitous “My son is a doctor” […]
Easy Rules for Baking Success
December 10, 2011
(The following is the sixth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) It’s that time of year, again, when we discover that the flour […]
Christmas in London: Santa is Booked, But An Elf Might Be Available
November 24, 2011
It’s Thanksgiving and the best way to celebrate is to get in line now for all the “Black Friday Sales That Start on Thursday” sales. The second best way is to post this brilliantly reworked piece about Christmas in London and to hope that the people who read the inferior post last year are too […]
For me, The Day is The Day After.
December 25, 2010
It’s Christmas morning. My three children, their two spouses (No, two of my children don’t share a spouse. My younger son’s girlfriend is with her family in Myrtle Beach, SC) and my grandson and two dogs are at my ex’s house. There, they, like every other person in the world except me, will be seated […]
Welcome to 2013. You can run, but you can’t hide.
January 1, 2013
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Back on January 1, 1541, it would have been tough to predict what the coming year would bring. Nostradamus was the only high-profile prognosticator around then, but, in the absence of tweets, iPhones, and The Anderson Cooper Show, most of his predictions were unknown to the general population. Most people simply went out their daily […]