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Archives for 2011

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Jews and Saints

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 […]

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Thanks Unexpected

I never signed up for this….. I don’t often repeat those words though they sum up so much of what I blog about.  This includes the post I recently wrote about my ex-husband Howard, his illness, and his girlfriend Dina; and it also includes most of my life since Thanksgiving. Before we’d even digested the […]

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How Heidi Klum can improve the health care system

…Because you might not realize that fashion can be bad for your health. Seriously.  (Disclaimer:  I have no stats or scientific studies to prove this.  Just read this post and decide for yourself. ) The thing is, we’re living in a time of incredible progress; when the world changes in nano seconds. In hospitals, where […]

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Beach High

The name sounds like a Beach Boys song or a mythical concept—-and in a sense that’s what it is: a mythical place within a mythical place. Palm trees.  Balmy tropical weather.    Adjacent to a golf course.  Just a few blocks from the beach and the Atlantic Ocean.    Glitzy glamourous resorts like the Fontainebleau […]

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An Angel in your corner

This post is very difficult to write and not what you would expect.  And not what I would expect.  I’m not even sure where to start; so I’ll start with an end—the end of my marriage to the man who is the father of my two children. People are usually surprised when they learn about […]

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Plumped and pink'd

I’ve been traveling; and mostly off the grid.   Meanwhile, the month has somehow flown by. Not just any month. And now that October is almost over, I just can’t let it go by unnoticed. As if I could NOT notice.  It’s impossible to miss. It’s on football players, firetrucks, fast food. On a table at […]

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