Nostalgia Category
Egg slut and Gefilter fishing
Posted on May 18, 2014 18 Comments
When I started this blog, I thought I would plan my posts in advance in some organized fashion. But I discovered that what I feel like writing about just materializes like George and Marion Kirby. When I go with my impulse, they just write themselves. More spontaneity appeals to me, so I may seem like I am […]
The last straw-woman
Posted on March 13, 2014 39 Comments
[Three second warning, this post falls into the “everything” end of the tagline spectrum…those who have not had their first cup of java, brace yourselves or come back when fortified.] 🙂 This was a topic I had planned to discuss about two months ago. And, I had a different title in mind. However, as life […]
Creating harmony amid cacophony
Posted on February 1, 2014 7 Comments
I hope you won’t mind if I re-post an e-mail I received from Ralph Nader. This is what courage really looks like. Not capitulation and compromise of one’s core principles just to keep the peace, but true understanding of and compassion for human beings and our planet. Pete Seeger acted and in so doing, he […]
The great obscurian novel
Posted on October 30, 2013 24 Comments
I just got this email from Word Press: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/nanowrimo-2013/ I skimmed it as I usually do with their posts, just to find out if it was anything earth-shattering. Have you seen this? It invites us to spend November writing the great American, or whatever, novel. The challenge is to write every day and make it […]
Don’t dip into that river
Posted on October 21, 2013 5 Comments
One of my cousins sent me a random e-mail out of the blue with a link to this New York Times story, on Friday: http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/travel/reflections-on-a-paris-left-behind.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&emc=eta1 Often, I don’t have the time to read through the links people send me. This particular cousin is an older guy that is one of my grand-aunts’ step sons, so […]
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