I apologize in advance for being especially random in this post. I woke up in an explosion of pain and I’ve spent most of the day in bed. As I write this, my fingers and hands rebel and scream, “GET OFF THE COMPUTER! GO BACK TO BED!” I’m trying to ignore the screaming. If I… Continue reading Pain, pain, go away, DON’T come again another day… A most random roundup
Actors Sarah Michelle (Gellar) Prinze (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame) and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She’s All That) just announced their little girl was born! Because Papi Prinze, who is fluent in Spanish, is half Latino (Puerto Rican) and half (Hungarian) Jewish and Ima Sarah Michelle is a Jewess, their daughter is a little Jewtina–Jewish… Continue reading Another Jewtina is born!
In “My Love/Hate Relationship with G-d”, I wrote about how tumultuous and complicated my relationship with G-d has been over the years. And again, rather surprisingly I find myself in a place I didn’t expect to be with G-d. I never imagined that my relationship with G-d could get complicated AFTER I’d become Jewish. Wasn’t… Continue reading So, you want to be Jewish?
Polish Latino Joe Hernandez-Kolski tells you what’s “cool” (vibrating cell phones) and what’s definite not (George Bush). So is this cool?
“Rosh Hashana with a Spanish accent” (Houston Chronicle) Who says you have to choose between being Jewish and Latino? (Sorry this article is late! I just got a chance to look at it.)
I ate a vegetable. If you don’t understand the significance of this statement, then you haven’t read my Rosh Hashanah Resolutions. I never eat vegetables. Not because I dislike them or anything but because whenever I buy them, I relegate them to the bottom of the fridge where they wait (and wait, and wait, and… Continue reading Now how y’all doing?
Good morning, y’all! I know you’re expecting a rather jazzy post but it looks like I’m ringing in the new year by falling behind on my blogging. Call it a little Monday madness. Usually, I have posts scheduled weeks in advance. I hope to maintain some kind of consistency throughout the rest of the holidays… Continue reading Monday Madness
Okay, I know I said I would see you Monday but here I am sneaking online. The cooking is almost done and my plans in Riverdale are set. Hopefully, I don’t burn the beans as I’ve just burned the plantains…ay! Here’s wishing all of you an awesome happy, healthy (especially, healthy) and sweet (yum, honey… Continue reading 5:54pm
Here are some of my resolutions for the new year: 1. Save money. This year, I closed my savings account because I didn’t have anything to put in it. Depressing.I’m hopeful that the new year some of the ways I’ve started to cut back will pay off. I got rid of that rarely used fax… Continue reading Rosh Hashanah Resolutions
Read “Services Charges” and learn about how synagogues and their congregants are handling the economic downturn.
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 