I’m so over the whole New Year’s Eve thing. Which is one of the few good things about getting older. When I was a kid, every New Year’s Eve I’d watch my mother getting dressed up for a party, especially one night she wore a tight white satin dress with a shocking pink satin coat. In the […]
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 […]
Math Problems
According to family lore, when I was four years old, my parents were leaving for a trip and asked what I wanted them to bring back for me. I considered all my options– a doll, a dress, a hula hoop–and I asked for an arithmetic book. I know the story is true because I still remember the […]
Surviving Presidential Politics
As a child of lifetime Democrats and a devoted John F. Kennedy worshipper, I developed an early and permanent distaste for Richard Nixon. When he re-emerged onto the political scene, I vowed to friends that “I’m leaving the country if Nixon is elected.” When he did get elected in 1968, despite my threat to emigrate, I […]
Embarrassing Confessions
This is embarrassing. What was I thinking? Announcing my birthday on the internet? How tacky. Even as I wrote those words just now, the phone rang yet again. I’m surprised Bob Costas didn’t wish me Happy Birthday from Beijing. Honestly, soliciting attention was never my intention. Which is a funny thing to say when you’re […]
The World’s Fastest Man…meets the world’s slowest woman
In 2008 in Beijing Usain Bolt breezed through the 100-meter dash so easily he looked like an Olympian god running against mortals, as he officially became the world’s fastest human. Another Olympian who held that title was “Bullet” Bob Hayes, who later played for the Dallas Cowboys. He was crowned world’s fastest human at the […]
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