June 2010

Suffering from Flotilla Fatigue?

June 3, 2010
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If my grandpa can’t come to the pictures, they come to him

June 2, 2010

About a month ago, I was visiting my grandpa when he got a call.  His  girlfriend jumped three feet in the air because the phone is loud since my grandpa used to be a railroad engineer in the Ol’ USSR and now has awful hearing as a result. “Do you know why she jumps so high,” my grandpa asked me conspiratorially, oblivious to the noise. “No,” I said. “It’s because she thinks Malach HaMavet (the Angel of Death) is calling ...

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Welcome, Summer

June 1, 2010

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Dragon Boat paddles near the Potomac River. I count June 1 as the first “real” day of summer, even though the solstice doesn’t come until later and I was already sweating a couple of weeks ago. June always enters rife with the glimmering possibilities of summer.  I always imagine in the late weeks of April that by July I’ll have sunlit tea parties on the banks of the Potomac and frolic on cool verandas in fluffy party ...

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