Busy lunch hour

Tonight is our annual hot dog and hamburger cookout at my synagogue. A couple of years ago, I volunteered my nifty Coleman gas grill because a) it’s kosher, b) it’s portable, and c) it’s gas. The grill was made for tailgating. The difference in...

Your earworm for today

Jim Steinman is so shlocky, and yet I have both Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell albums and, well, I love Jim Steinman. This was my favorite Air Supply song. Can’t get it out of my head today. My gift to you all. (The video is SO awful.)

Everything old is new again

Thirteen years ago, I started blogging with a dual purpose: To keep up my HTML skills (I actually hand-coded everything in those days) and to keep writing every day. I figured hey, it may not be fiction, but it’s writing. I did write a little bit of fiction,...

This… is… Meimei!

I lost Gracie, the model for Goldeneyes, in October. A few days after she died, I found a tiny, half-Siamese, half-tabby female kitten at a local agency. I named her Meimei, the Mandarin word for “little sister” I learned from watching Firefly. And I...