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Tag Archives: Family Memories
Passover Cleaning, Passover Cogitation
OK, put down your cleaning rag for a second and let’s talk about Passover. What does it mean to you? For me, it is a time of deep cleaning and introspection, which leads to gratitude. It used to mean more–I … Continue reading
Posted in Passover, Uncategorized
Tagged assimilation, cleaning, crumbs, Family Memories, Food, gratitude, Jewish practice, Kosher, Passover, Pesach, Uncategorized
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The UNESCO World Memory Project Accepts ITS Records
OK, this is in the “About Damn Time” category. ITS is short for International Tracing Service, which was set up by the Red Cross after World War II. It is the place where people registered themselves after the war so … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Red Cross, Uncategorized
Tagged Family Memories, history, Holocaust, ITS, Jews, Red Cross, Reparations, Shoah, UN, Uncategorized
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I love you Erma Bombeck! And I want a Selectric!
I had the great honor of going to the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop from April 19-21 at the University of Dayton. I learned some great things. About tweeting and DMing, rights, and writing, comedy and sadness, and Marianist Catholics.And “Our … Continue reading
Posted in publishing, Uncategorized
Tagged cemetery, Dayton, EBWW, Erma Bombeck, Family Memories, funerals, hopes, Internet, laughter, publishing, social networking, Uncategorized, writing
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Matzo Ball memories
Floaters or Sinkers? In the sad degradation of Passover tradition that happens when parents get older and children move out, in these downbeat latter days when there is no one young enough to sing the Four Questions without embarrassment, and … Continue reading
Posted in Pesach
Tagged Family Memories, floaters, matzah balls, matzo balls, Pesach, sinkers
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Balkanization at the Table
In my family, geography affected everything, down to the way we ate fruit. That’s why, when I was a child and I sat down to a meal at a cousin’s house, if there was melon for an appetizer or dessert, … Continue reading
Tagged Cousins, Family Memories, Food, Hungarian, Melon, Russian
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