So, today is my younger daughter’s birthday. (She is my middle child, but, for almost a decade, she was my youngest child. Until a surprise child arrived when she was almost 8 years old.)
Continue reading A decade birthday!
So, today is my younger daughter’s birthday. But, for almost a decade, she was my youngest child. Until a surprise child arrived when she was almost 8 years old.
Continue reading Hope you have lots of candles. It’s someone’s birthday today!
Hmm. What to discuss today? Should I tell you about my friends? Or my close relatives? Or my children and grandchildren?
Continue reading The Ninth of the Ninth Month
So, I wrote the poem on my birthday. Just to codify my feelings. And, my friends convinced me that I should post this on my blog, too.
Continue reading A birthday not (The E is not silent- it’s missing!)
For years, Shira was the baby of the family. Until she turned 8, when a new (surprise) addition arrived. Shira’s first reaction? “Put him back! I want a baby sister.”
The Fourth of July.
No, I won’t be talking about how TheDonald has hijacked the holiday and will be making it a crass political statement- one all about him. (Nothing else ever counts for him, anyway.)
Continue reading Yankee Doodle Went to Town
A few years after my older daughter was born, we had a new addition to our family. And, she served as our youngest child for almost a decade.
In two days, the month of Elul will end. As I wrote on the first day, when the period of self-assessment begins, we are 30 days into the 40 day period of determining how we can make our lives- and the lives of others- better. (You can also search for Elul in the index to the left and see more of my thoughts on this “resolution-making” period.)
Continue reading Rosh Hashana- and something else
Listen… Do you want to know a secret?
No, I am not channeling one of my favorites songs from the Beatles. Today is the birthday of my eldest. Of course, we use the time a baby breathes its first, but Shoshana took way more than a day from the time her mother’s water broke to enter into the world.
Continue reading What a special day. No zero’s here yet.
The Ides of March.
A date most of us have learned. Thanks to a long-dead playwright. William Shakespeare. Who ensured the world would remember this day as the one when Julius Caesar, the imperial ruler of Rome, was assassinated.
Continue reading The Ides of March was yesterday
