I did some drawings (poster board size) to use at a Purim celebration on Saturday. So I decided to turn them into one, big Happy Purim Card for my blog before they get colored and scribbled on by a lot of kids and tipsy adults! I didn’t manage to get all the drawings to arrive [...]
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Purim !!!!
Posted in Creativity, Holidays, Religion on March 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Earliest High Holy Day Memories
Posted in "Growing up", Children, cooking/food, Family, Just Life (or "Idiot File for the Unknown", Religion on September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The High Holy Days bring back long-ago, bittersweet memories for me, of childhood lost, days past, and friends and family now gone. Some of my earliest memories of this time are of the old Temple. I’d gaze up at the domed ceiling, over to the stained glass windows, and down at my little, white-gloved [...]
Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?
Posted in Politics, Religion on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It may not be the season, but if you read this now, you’ll be ready next time around. So I spoke my peace about the Christmas Tree vs. Holiday Tree thing. And if that weren’t enough, that same season, the news shows were asking us what we think of “Season’s Greetings/Happy Holidays” as opposed to [...]
Christmas Tree or Holiday Tree?
Posted in Education, Politics, Religion on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas Tree or Holiday Tree? Remember all the upheaval a while back about this? For me, there’s a simple answer, and only one. It’s a Christmas tree, of course. Any ninny can see that. And I don’t say this as a Christian, because I’m not one. I can’t speak as an expert for most other [...]
Muddy Two Shoes
Posted in Outdoors, Ranching/Farming/Rural Concerns, Religion on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After (some) winters of freezing rain, ice, sleet, and snow, Central Texas finally begins to thaw out. Spring is definitely in the air today, and how welcome it is! Ah, the changes of seasons. How wonderful they are. One winter, the first time we heard the telltale, resounding thwack of ice sliding off the steeply [...]
Grandfather Ellis’s Talit
Posted in "Growing up", Religion on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The old, soiled Talit I’m wearing in Zack’s and my B’nei Mitzvot picture belonged to my grandfather Isadore Ellis. He had worn it at the Synagogue on the day he died (in 1950). He had walked several blocks to Shul, walked back, gone to sleep for a little nap, and G-d took him, as is [...]
From Clothes Lines to Green Burials
Posted in Going Green, Religion on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I never knew I was so cool, such a trendsetter, so “with it”. Many of the things my kids made fun of me for when they were know-it-all teenagers, they’re praising me for— or at least grudgingly remembering that I was a bit ahead of my time. I guess this is my reward. I owned [...]
