March 2010

Happy International Women’s Day 2010!

March 7, 2010

If it’s one thing the Soviets were good at, it was celebrating International Women’s Day, which is on March 8th every year.  Unlike Mother’s Day in Western Europe and America, March 8th is a celebration of all women regardless of whether they are mothers, and of their contribution to society.  Here’s a cool piece Mr. B and I heard today about the contribution of women to America’s space program in the 1960s.  And here’s a story about the first Russian ...

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It’s Friday Links Time!

March 4, 2010

I am exhausted.  It has been a grueling week, in many senses of the word.  I think these links feel the same. Happy weekend! Ed:  Check out how I saved Jodifur’s Shoe Friday From the blogs Leah writes about farshmak, which I am terrified of Susie has some awesome pictures of Jeddah, Saudi The Bloggess has some choice medals for you Mohamed has a post about a movie where the main character finds out he’s Jewish..but was a Muslim You ...

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Lenin congratulates me

March 3, 2010

So, this whole weight loss thing is going pretty well, I think, since I am now down to 5 pounds lost.  And, obviously, to celebrate, I made a graphic with broccoli and Lenin and everything. At this point, I no longer make sense.

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Visiting my grandpa, the Yiddish-speaking atheist

March 2, 2010

This weekend, as we often do, Mr. B and I went to see the fam.  The fam is enormous, there are lots of them, and all of them need to be seen every time we go to visit them in Philadelphia, especially the grandparents, of which there are four, each of which needs extra time. On the one hand, I know I should be grateful, but on the other hand,  since Mr. B and I are kind of introverted  (what, ...

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Nothing to see here, move along…

March 1, 2010

.. to my friend Jodi’s blog, where I am guest posting about the economic costs of weddings.

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