Good Boy!
Yesterday Dana and Ryan took Marcus on the city bus to meet me near my office for lunch. On the way down, Dana asked Marcus if he wanted a snack. She had a baggie of “Scooby Snack” Graham Crackers....
View ArticleAwesome Shit My Nephew Says
My nephew will be three at the end of April. Here are three awesome things he said within the last month: (Grasping the string of a mylar balloon with a ratty koala bear hand puppet): Fuzzy Wuzzy is...
View ArticleRegret, Or, The Internet Blossomed 10 Years Too Late
One of my many regrets in life that keeps me up many a night is that I didn’t find out that my great uncle survived the Holocaust until after my grandfather died. It’s one of those extremely stupid...
View ArticleI’m Sure that Is Exactly What Foreigner Was Thinking, Urgent-ly
While I was home this past weekend, I told my mom (and aunt and cousin) that I liked breaking out into song at work. My mom asked what I like to sing. “You know, Journey, REO Speedwagon, and...
View ArticleLooking Out for His Kid
My phone rang at work yesterday. When I saw my dad’s number on the screen, I immediately worried. What could cause him to call me in the middle of the work day? It had to be bad news. I braced myself....
View ArticleVeteran’s Day and Grandpa Ruby
Grandpa Ruby's Army Portrait In the last few years, I have written extensively about my dad’s father, my grandpa Mike. I spent a lot of time with him when I was growing up, and the mystery around his...
View ArticleThe Creepy (Plush) Cat lady
At the end of December, I was fortunate to be able to go on vacation with my husband, my sister, my nephew, my husband’s brother, my husband’s brother’s wife, and his niece. The mispokha converged on...
View ArticleIrony
Look closelyI love this photo of my grandfather at B’Nai Jacob on Artesian in 1987. At first glance, it seems like a man praying with his peers, probably as a minyan. But then you look closely… and it...
View ArticleMumps: A Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, the only child of Holocaust survivors came down with the mumps. For parents whose entire families were lost – either to the Nazi death camps...
View ArticleMourner’s Kaddish for My Grandfather’s Relatives
It is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and I lit a Yahrzeit (memorial) candle for my grandfather’s relatives and said the Mourner’s Kaddish for: Pesha Rajsman Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba...
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