Klezmer music: from the past to the present - Institut Européen des Musiques Juives How I feel about music is yet another odd aspect of my life...
Is this a blog entry that represents a double standard ? Once a month, I have dinner with folks in a group I belong to. During the last dinner...
[IMG] The Hebrew word chai is a symbol of life, vitality, and good luck. It's made up of the letters chet and yud, which add up to the number 18,...
Once upon a time there was a maternal grandma. No one visited her or talked to her. She spoke accented English. The only things she made over...
Picture it! San Francisco! 2025! I have a dear friend (one of the first 5 people I met when I moved to San Francisco) who is still high on my...
I won't post the photo here because... well... I have respect for the other person's privacy even though mine was not heretofore considered pre-...
wedgie [ wej-ee ] noun Informal. the condition of having one's underpants or other clothing uncomfortably stuck between the buttocks. We've all...
It was late November in Hawaii. I was about to lose my job and close on my first house/home. I was floating in the Pacific Ocean on Waikiki. I...
I remember that day. I was at his office in support of an employee who might be subject to termination. He offered me and the employee a bottle of...
I am old school. I say it with pride. I learned things back in the day that seemed to work (well) back in the day. Sometimes there are things...
I look at credit karma every day. It's what I do. It's how I roll. And today--my perfect credit score notwithstanding--I was informed that my...
I recently went to San Francisco and stayed at the home of a friend (Presidents' Day, 2025). He had a pile of unopened mail. Among the envelopes...
I live an old-fashioned life(style) with the marked exception of my tender. I pay for most everything with a credit card. Cash only comes out...
Family Friendly Italian Restaurant – The Old Spaghetti Factory Not sure if you're familiar with the establishment. Many of them have closed, but...
I wish for one, but I wouldn't actually make such a wish. I'm somewhere between 40-50 pounds overweight and the diet and exercise combination...
"A conditional sentence is a sentence in a natural language that expresses that one thing is contingent on another, e.g., "If it rains, the picnic...
I went with my friend, Phil, to Hayward to buy a new-for-him used car. I was helping him financially and I gave him a lift to the car lot /...
aphasia [ uh-fey-zhuh ] noun Pathology. an impairment of a previously held ability to produce or understand spoken, written, or signed language,...
¡ Vete a limpiarte el culo con las noticias de ayer ! (It always sounds better in Spanish).
Trash in the urinal.
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