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Archive for March, 2009
Missing the hevre at the soup salon
Mar 30th
I’ve been saving this thought for awhile, just sort of sitting on it, and it is usually more prevalent on a Friday but somehow always seems sort of wrong to write about it as Shabbat approaches. On a Monday, it doesn’t seem so wrong. So here it is: I miss my Friday afternoons and evenings. I miss everything about my old Fridays. I used to look forward all week to the delicious Friday soup and even better company that went with it. There was catching up, talk of plays and concerts that I never got to see but heard about More >
pre-Pesach toss the tv week?
Mar 29th
People toss things out to the street all the time in my neighborhood, including furniture but more often clothing. Just before Pesach the “street donations” are generally considerable and, on the street I live in, “high quality.” Yet, I have to say, that in two years living on this block, I’ve never seen a tv set out for “somebody take me free.” Never, that is, until this past week. Coming home on Thursday evening I walked past not just one but two of them on my way home, the second being very large and looking pretty new. “Nice score for More >
An extra good reason to look forward to Friday
Mar 26th
This Friday, that is. The clocks go up an hour tomorrow and our days will get a wonderful boost of an extra hour of sunlight, making them longer and, for me, more productive! Honestly, I don’t see the reason for maintaining daylights savings time any longer. Why do we do it? Why not be on the summer schedule year-round? When we (the world) were more agrarian-based it made a lot more sense to push the clocks back as winter approached and forward in the spring. People did not work such long hours then in winter for one thing, whether they More >
Greatest disgrace in Labour’s history
Mar 25th
Read it and weep. I’m done with Labour. On Monday I go and officially change my party status.
“Labor will never be the same,” said former Knesset Member Yael Dayan Tuesday, once the results of the party’s vote on Chairman Ehud Barak’s coalition bid were in.
Tuesday evening saw a tumultuous meeting of the party’s Central Committee that ended with a favorable vote for Barak’s bid. The tally, numbering 680 “yea” votes and 507 “nay” votes, has effectively cleared Labor’s path to join Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
“This is such a disgrace,” she added. “I was so sure the bid would fall. More >
Ahchoo! Allergy season is upon me
Mar 23rd
I feel like I’ve been run over by a small truck. I’ve sneezed 100 times today if I’ve sneezed once. My eyes are itchy, my nose alternately runny and stuffed. I’m achy. I definitely feel better than baby Muffin who got spayed today, however. My computer does not feel so good either. The space bar has had a breakdown. It has become semi-connected and won’t reconnect and the N has decided it wants to jump off every other minute, along with needing a hammer for the T, H, U, and several other friends.
I am however really impressed with my technical More >
how we should have gotten back Gilad Shalit
Mar 23rd
More than 1,000 days ago, shortly after Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and taken hostage, I suggested that our response should be to arrest 10 Hamasniks in the West Bank every day that Shalit continued to be held. 10 arrests per day on charges of belonging to and supporting a terrorist organization. We should have told Hamas, fine you have Shalit, we have an ever-increasing number of your people whom we will exchange in return for Shalit. We will exchange no prisoners, not one, whom has blood on his hands. In hindsight now, I’d add, that we should have told Hamas More >
Breaking Barak or braking Barak?
Mar 22nd
There is currently a huge schism opening up in the Labour Party. Barak’s machinations to secure himself the position of Defense Minister and cuddling up to Bibi are seemingly without end or limit. He has already trodden on and violated TWO basic constitutional rules for the Labour Party in his attempt to marry Bibi “for the good of the nation which is above the good of the party” in his own words. The problem is, of course, it is not for the good of the nation but for the good of himself and himself alone that he is pushing for More >
Such a good week
Mar 21st
This last week has been so busy and I’ve not even had time to sit and write to update but it has been overall a really good week. I think, in part, because it is beginning to stay light later –here it is at 6pm and it is in twilight rather than night time dark — and that always gives my mood such a lift. I have so much more energy when we’ve more daylight. Once it gets dark, no matter the time, I am like a bear that needs to hibernate and cuddle down under warm blankets with tea More >
Girls, reduce your breast cancer risk by 90%!
Mar 17th
Results of several medical studies have shown that by eating only 1/3rd of an ounce of fresh mushrooms a day (every day) will reduce your risk, even for those who have the breast cancer gene, by 64%. (Dried mushrooms reduce your risk by 50%). One simple addition to your daily diet added to the mushroom factor will reduce your risk by 90% –a single 8 oz. serving of green tea (must be consumed within 45 minutes of brewing –so forget the bottled stuff from the store as after 45 minutes from brewing the health benefits of green tea reduce down More >
The immaculate conception: My “spayed” cat PREGNANT
Mar 15th
Longtime readers may remember my many complaints about Shachori seeming to regularly go into heat, with all the yowling that goes with it, despite my being assured by not just one but two vets that she had most definitely been spayed. The probable cause of “in heat” behaviour was doubtlessly a result of a small piece of her reproductive tissue left behind after the surgery. I discussed at length the possibility of an exploratory surgery being done to remove the offending bit of tissue but was talked out of it on the argument that the surgery is traumatic and there More >
(Photo by Dani Machlis)
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