Amparo’s email on fredslist yesterday got me thinking early. During the wonderful cooking frenzy on Thanksgiving Day, my mind always goes to my list. My blessings list. It’s sort of my own Thanksgiving tradition with myself. This year, I started early. In a year in which we are struggling through once in a lifetime challenges, my list is …
Thanksgiving will be small this year. Just my immediate family after some family friendly pre-dinner swabs. Who could have imagined that set up for a Thanksgiving dinner? That said, my blog today is not about a COVID Thanksgiving. Instead, I am looking for your favorite side dishes. Because my group is small this year, I feel like I have an oppor …
Who among us is not able to sing that theme song? Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek have been staples in my house since before we were married. For a long time, I thought it was let’s say, unique, that my husband planned his weekday evenings around a 7 pm television show. Many an evening we would all try to guess answers as a family. I have never been …
I know that Corey blogged about this topic on Sunday – but I just cannot think of anything else to blog about today that makes any sense and would not seem completely superfluous. I suppose you can consider this a theme. In this country, we have the power and privilege to vote. We get to show that our voice matters. I have been so heartened by all …
My inbox fills up pretty fast. I am absolutely not complaining, well maybe a little. The junk mail can be a little overwhelming. Lots of people really want to date me, or sell me jewelry, or want to warn me of something terrible – you get the idea. But past the junk mail which is easy enough to delete, I am constantly working on and revisin …
What advice would you give – or better yet, did you give – last time you helped someone draft a cover letter? My son is getting ready to apply for summer internships. He is a college junior studying chemical engineering (with a nuclear engineering minor) and has a strong interest in energy. At this point, he is diligently working on cover le …
I do that a lot these days. Most times, one of my blessings is that I have so many on my list! A nice place to be. On this week’s blessing list is my mom. We just celebrated her birthday (and in family tradition I am not allowed to publish exactly which one . . .) Occasions bring reflection. I know that my mom taught us all how to love and …
In front of the television with the rabbi and cantor streaming live. I think I really liked this year’s services. With the new year approaching, we talked about how to go to services. There were three options – in person, an outdoor service or streamed from our family room couch. We chose the last, with the idea that it would be safest for this ye …
Because it is important. Corey and Rona started this conversation. It deserves to be continued. In the same steps as Rona, I also started my career in the late 1980’s as a young Jewish lawyer walking behind RBG. Rona and I were actually young lawyers together at the same firm. I didn’t really know RBG at the time. I didn’t know that that she …
We did not vacation at all this summer. It literally felt like one long, hot summer day. I am not really complaining. If you know me at all, you have heard me talk about how much I enjoy chilling in my back yard. I actually enjoyed my outdoors this summer more than any summer before. That said, I am starting to itch to do something, or at least …
What a difference a year makes. I always loved the start of the school year. Even now, as an adult, in early September I find myself buying new notebooks and pens. The beginning of each school year always felt like the first step of a new adventure with all sorts of surprises in store. Well, part of that is still true. This school year is certain …
You walked into a bank – even pre-COVID. When I was probably 7 or 8 years old my parents took me to the local Citibank and we opened my first savings account. I remember the passbook. I probably still have it somewhere. I deposited birthday gifts, babysitting earnings, first paychecks (I always learned to save half) and more. I watched the en …
I really did not enjoy walking – but now I do. When COVID started, like all of us we tried to find activities that checked off a few boxes – safe, out of the house, healthy. For a long time, checking those boxes was not easy. Then we started walking. First, I walked every day with my daughter while she was home. When she moved out, a close fri …
It has been a long time coming but I did it. I made the trip into the office and spent a day at my desk. Sure, it was different. Plexiglass everywhere, hand sanitizer literally every few steps, and a bucket of wipes the size of which I have never seen. Perhaps the most difficult change for me is the taped-up coffee machine. No communal coffee. …
Have you ever noticed how much meaning an old, frayed picture holds? And if it is in black and white, it is like sunshine in December! This past weekend, I was at my mom’s house. I went downstairs for something and found old photos strewn across the downstairs bedroom. I suspect that they were left over from Hurricane Sandy. Her downstairs was l …
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