Another train derailmentIn only 90 days!I wonder to myselfIs this the latest craze? Rail has always beenThe safest way we traveled. But lately, seems to beThe mode has now unraveled. It isn’t just the accident.Are trains no longer safe?It’s toxic waste that’s presentI think there’s something “treif.” Also, there’s too […]
Travel
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Traveling with kids is never easy. But times sure have changed. Then When I was a kid, every summer my parents piled my two sisters and me into the car for the three-day road trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to visit the grandparents. We left at the crack of […]
The phone rang at 8:30 that morning. “Lin, I’m so sorry. My battery’s dead. You’ll have to drive,” my sister said, her voice quivering with distress. “No worries. I’ll pick you up,” I said, even though I really didn’t want to drive since my cataract surgery was still a week […]
Even though the Baltimore Orioles have been struggling, my husband, Stuart, and I have been diehard fans even before we met. We’ve been there through the happy times (think Cal Ripkin era) and the very unhappy times like the past five years. Twenty years ago, we purchased four Sunday season […]
Happy birthday, Israel! You are now 74 years young and have accomplished so much in so few years. You have always been part of my life. Remember Jewish National Fund tzedakah (charity) boxes? My pennies, nickels and dimes were collected religiously so that you could plant trees and turn a desert […]
Becoming parents isn’t always as easy as you think. The call It was early September 1982, just after Labor Day. I was at Sinai Hospital, post-op four days bowel resection due to a blockage. Nasal gastric tube down the throat, fuzzy-headed from anesthesia and doped up on pain meds. That’s […]
A map of Jerusalem from 1581 shows the city at the center of the world. Although we now know that geographically this is incorrect, the city is still today the center of the Jewish world. Jerusalem is ancient and modern. Archeological digs dating thousands of years stand near modern skyscrapers. […]
To paraphrase an old TV commercial, “I am not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” The first five years of my married life could be titled, “I was not in the Army but was married to an Army Chaplain.” My husband, Captain Howard Graber, had enlisted in the […]
Trickling water soothes and calms my soulas I watch each ripple during my stroll. Here and there I see a duck swim by.I take a deep breath and then I sigh. The water would be too cold for mesince the air is at a low degree. The wind is blowing […]