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Sleeping with the Enemy

I was born a Democrat. Party affiliation was served along with the canned vegetables I was forced to eat for dinner. My first crush was on John Kennedy. I went to Washington to work for George McGovern against Nixon, and in the middle of chemotherapy I put on my wig and took my daughter to […]

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Political Parenting

I talked to a teacher recently who has taught 4th grade for many years, whose students are very curious about the election and how she plans to vote.  They form their own opinions much later, she says. At that age,their own political preferences come directly through the parental pipeline. I started my kids early.  Each […]

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A Moral Dilemma

If you read Alli’s post yesterday, you just got a tiny peek into one of the major things I never signed up for: when Alli married into the military, in a sense, I did, too.  The moral dilemma she described, being married to a soldier during a time of a controversial war, multiplied beyond her–and created […]

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A Different Pair of Glasses

This post is written by my daughter Alli. For those who wondered about my safety after my other blog: yes, after many hours of lessons, I can now drive the manual transmission, and believe it or not, I really like it.  Which just goes to show that in this life, anything is possible.  And driving […]

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Fasting and Forks

On the day of the Jewish calendar specifically set aside for reflection and spirituality, I am thinking about forks.  Not that forks aren’t important–especially when there is a piece of chocolate cake on the end.  But today I can’t eat chocolate cake, or anything else.  I am fasting for Yom Kippur.  So I can’t use a […]

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Making the List

Like Jews all over the world, I haven’t eaten since sunset last night.  No food. No drink.  Not even water.  This is part of the ritual Jews observe every year to commemorate Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. I’m not very observant ; but I fast every Yom Kippur because that is part of who […]

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