I am not going to bore you with details of the Mohs surgery or the plastic surgery or how I had a coughing fit while on the operating table under anesthesia. And I won’t describe my bruised and battered face which looked like I had a browlift and a facelift—or else had gone 10 rounds [...]
No Weigh !!
July 8, 2008 By 3 Comments
So there we are, my two children, H, and his side of the family. All adults ranging in age from 20 to 70. Dinner is over, I am paying no attention to the conversation at the far end of the table when I see my nephew approaching with a bathroom scale. I have no idea [...]
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Meet the Fockers
July 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Although I’m Jewish, I don’t know much Yiddish. But I love the words I know, which perfectly capture things that the King’s English cannot begin to describe. Schlep. Schlemiel. Chutzpah. Chatchkes. Perfect words and impossible to imagine living without them. If Yiddish was still in use, maybe we would have words for other things equally [...]
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Family Reunion
July 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to everyone who read, commented and emailed me— I made it thru July 4 with a minimum of angst and a maximum of love. FYI as a virgin blogger I don’t know the answers to some of the questions about how to subscribe, etc. –but I plan to find out in the next few [...]
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After becoming a writer, artist, TV journalist, mother and breast cancer survivor----I realize nothing turns out the way we expect. So I blog about handling the big and little things — with humor, humanity, and hope.
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