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Here is a post I wrote for the Jewish Women’s Archive last week. I have been watching the tech revolution from a cozy perch in the Tramiel family since 1983, and I have decided that the difference between a tech … Continue reading →

I have to come out about something. I’m not  straight. But I don’t know what to call myself.  Maybe you can help me. I don’t know the word for what I am, besides old. I’m so old  I don’t know … Continue reading →

Hi, all,I got the whole concept of cookie cleavage from an  estranged friend of mine named Marjorie Peskin.  Cleavage seemed to be the best thing to call that space where the filling peeks out.  But the rest of the ideas, … Continue reading →

  My husband was a contributor to the firmware in the earliest personal computers made by Commodore, and was VP of software for Atari for 12 years.  Now I’m going to brag for a minute.  The Commodore 64 was the … Continue reading →

Ma’s Marble Cake (good with milk)1 well-greased bottom part of a “Nu Wonder Baker” or 8” diameter old fashioned coffee cake pan. These cake pans are smaller in diameter than Bundt pans, and have larger center holes, and assume that … Continue reading →

Having a great time with folks who think roots are important! The International Society of Jewish Genealogists are a worldwide organization that is entirely run by volunteers. This is very different from the Federation, where the machers order the employees … Continue reading →

Here, I wondered about  the schools and their Green Teams.  Green  Waste, Palo Alto, has been working with the schools to sort their trash into recycling and compostables and trash. The idea behind the program is simple–we throw out a … Continue reading →

This column was about the achievement gap.  There is a substantial difference in test scores and college attendance between ‘students of color’ or ‘Tinsley Kids’ in Palo Alto and everyone else.  The ‘Tinsley Kids’ are students from East Palo Alto … Continue reading →

Great New Dish I concocted for my  Seder I love my brother in law, G.  He knows what he likes, and what he likes is beef. And so do I. So every Passover since 1990, ‘to make G happy,’  I … Continue reading →

I love my brother in law, G.  He knows what he likes, and what he likes is beef. And so do I. So I served it to him every Passover, a big, honkin’ prime rib of it.  A whole Kosher … Continue reading →