Hello, it’s me, the self-described worst guest in the world! And I’ve just had a long time friendship end over it. But this isn’t just the story of that loss or how I’ve come to expect the worst. As a recent convert, I’ve blogged before about how I’ve been inappropriate countless times at the Shabbos… Continue reading The Worst Guest in the World
As if the economic crisis weren’t enough? Washington Post writer Jim Hoagland tells it like it is about Bernie Madoff in “The Madoff Generation”. I’m getting all these end of the year requests from Jewish charities and I’m wishing that I could give at all. I’m sure that too many of us are finding ourselves… Continue reading MADOFF
Check out one Spanish blogger’s interesting take on Bush ducking “zapatos” (Spanish for shoes). Then in case you missed the real thing, check out the clip on the BBC website. I was never a big fan of George but I thought he handled ducking shoes really well at the press conference. Talk about a culture… Continue reading Sorry I missed it
According to a post on Vivir Latino, a blog I just discovered, “a study released by the America Association of Retired People (AARP), at least 82% of Latinos 45 and older do.” The post says, “[The study] sort of plays to the stereotype of Latino’s faith as being more “folky” and less real and respectable.”… Continue reading Miracles, miracles, everywhere…
In case you missed it, to recap, I’m addicted to writing. Last night I suffered from a bout of insomnia that went well into the wee hours of the morning so, of course, I wrote as much as I could. I made little notes to myself about my book, etc. I did a couple of… Continue reading Putting my husband first
The other day it occurred to me that writing might be an addiction. Like any good addiction, I get a heady high from doing it. When I’m really high from it, I have trouble sleeping and I even wake up from dreams where I’ve been writing or thinking about writing. When I’m in that zone,… Continue reading Is Writing My Addiction?
No more milkshakes for me! A teacher I had for a nutrition class struggled with different health problems. She likened herself to the canary sent down to the mines because she was especially sensitive to everything. Because fibromyalgia makes absolutely no sense and some health professionals posit that it could the body’s response, some sort… Continue reading Extremely Sensitive: Treating My Fibromyalgia
A reminder that not all of us celebrate Christmas?
(Check out the photo of me at my Communion ceremony. Who knew I’d be a Rebbetzin then?) Early on in the conversion process, a friend and I joked that we should marry rabbis. She was a baal teshuva, I was a convert and we sure that if we had rabbis for husband, we would have… Continue reading Rebbetzin Ruminations
Ever play “Jewish Geography” as a convert? It’s pretty painful. Though, honestly, pretty much everyone assumes I’m a convert or knows I’m a convert so I rarely get dragged into the game. But one night I attended a dinner where one woman insisted that I looked familiar. I told her I doubted it since she… Continue reading A Lesson on Jewish Geography
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