Continue Reading Whimsical visitors I figured, given all the doom and gloom this week, we’ve earned some amusement. Meet Clive Smith, then, whose birds I find delightful….
Continue Reading Mothers and Daughters Walk with me. No, scratch that. Stand with me. Because that is what I have been doing, standing, ever so slightly frustrated,…
Continue Reading Trauma handed down through Generations We will never know the exact number of children traumatized in today’s world, with its wars, environmental catastrophes caused by climate change,…
Continue Reading The Second Night of Hanukkah Tonight we light the second candle on the Chanukiah, the traditional candle holder for the festival of Hanukkah. Last night I was…
Continue Reading Sit down and rest for a while. I got my Covid booster yesterday and decided to cut myself some slack – my intended essay on Utopias can wait. They…
Continue Reading Farewell to a Founder. Judy Margles retires from the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE) “How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance? Someone has said that it requires…
Continue Reading “The Time is out of Joint.” “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!/That ever I was born to set it right!” )” Shakespeare’s Hamlet after being…
Continue Reading Music during Times of War Less reading, more listening today. That is, if you’re inclined to follow me down the rabbit hole that opened up when…
Continue Reading Views from the Road – from Amusement to Awe. 40 years ago on this day my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly. I was a continent away and had to scramble to…
Continue Reading There will come soft rains I meant to brighten your Thanksgiving weekend with imagery of beautiful nature, all kinds of appealing fauna I came across during my…
