Darryle Pollack | I never signed up for this...
confessions of a cluttered mind
It’s become a yearly tradition at any seder I give or attend; and also a yearly tradition on my blog. For me, Passover means two words: Matzo. Roca. Whether you celebrate Passover or not—and you don’t have to be Jewish, either—I consider posting this a public service. MATZO ROCA 4 whole matzos 1 stick [...]
The first time my daughter tried to cook latkes she ended up with a fireball. Which proves beyond a doubt she shares my DNA. Both Jewish drama queens with a genetic mutation–Alli and I come from a long line of Jewish mothers who can’t cook. I had one Jewish grandmother who burned everything and one who never [...]
As I write this, my friend Dana is hauling herself up and down the hills of San Francisco with thousands of other participants on the Avon Walk. I’m sure I speak for other survivors, to say how grateful we feel to know that someone has your name on their shirt and your face in their [...]
Don’t be thrown by the title: this is for people of all faiths. Jewish or not—- if you love chocolate you’ll thank me or blame me for this. I’m going to a seder —but when I’m not cooking, the approach of Passover kind of rolls by me. And speaking of bread, until Daniel called [...]
I used to have an earthquake kit and a medical emergency kit stashed someplace in the house. Luckily I never needed to use them because I have no idea where they are. But I do know where to find the more important stuff. The brown stuff. So do my kids, who routinely bust me when [...]
It’s right outside our bedroom window but for the first two years we lived in our house I had no idea it was there. Like Isaac Newton, I practically had to be hit on the head to discover there were apples in one of our trees. Not just apples; hundreds of them, many already dropping [...]
Everything flies by me too fast lately—the days, the years, the amount of information, the new technology. I’m so behind I’ve given up trying to ever catch up. So naturally holidays always seem to sneak up on me at the last minute—which is why I’m proud of myself for finally getting ahead of the game [...]
The nations of the world haven’t managed to reach agreement on how to confront global warming. But now faced with an even great threat, no one is Snickering. My mind reeled as I tried to Crunch the numbers: there it was —in black and white—and brown. The world could run out of affordable chocolate within [...]
1. What uses more water—hand-washing or a dishwasher? 2. Is it better for the environment to use a garbage disposal or throw food scraps in the garbage? 3. When you’re confronted with choices from free range to cage free to fertile to certified organic—how do you know eggs-actly what the labels mean? (For the answers, [...]
I’m visiting friends who live a few hours away—which brings back the sights and smells of other summers when my kids were small. Before I knew we’d ever relocate to Carmel, my kids and I spent a couple summers down the coast near San Luis Obispo. For city folks, this was our first introduction to [...]
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.
The knobs say it all: Susan is the super-hero inside every woman. Made of ceramic knobs, hand–painted tiles, on a painted background. Measures 12″ X 12″ .
It's the combination, of course. And the locks will open for the right person---(to be revealed on the back when you take her home.) Made of combination locks and hand-painted tiles on a painted background. Measures 14" by 14".
Pun intended. A nice pair---of pears...made of miniature porcelain boxes, surrounded by painted tiles and broken china on a painted background. Measures 11" square.
Hope: not only on her driver’s license, but in her heart. Ceramic ribbon, hand-painted tiles on a painted background, measures 9 inches square.
Word surrounded by hand-painted tiles in bright and beautiful (gold and marine blue) colors, with border of tiny gold tiles. Measures 11" square.
True beauty lies in the imperfections. Irregular mirror surrounded by hand-painted tiles with a border of ceramic tiles. Measures 11" square.
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