Another email from a friend… Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words but sometimes a word is worth a thousand words …
Saturday, May 13th 1995 was fast approaching and I was running out of time. I had a deadline! My daughter Amy’s best friend Joanne was getting married in Alliston Ontario on that day and I needed to prepare a speech to help the couple to be launch a successful marriage. I was stumped for words
Jim, a friend of mine went recently to his doctor. Jim’s doctor is of Chinese descent and talks with an amusing accent. Jim was complaining that recently, some of his friends were laughing at him, saying that he was becoming ugly. He was not amused and sought medical advice as he was noticing some major changes in his
In the early eighties when the Cane family was living in Utah, Amy was about 8 years of age. She was inquisitive and was determined to be an archeologist when she grew up. Since learning to read and perhaps before, she showed a remarkable aptitude for things prehistoric. She knew the names of all the
Not that many years ago. Well it was before the advent of the internet being available on a cell phone or perhaps the internet was not available at all. My guess is that this memory is from the mid 1990’s. I was being driven across the German countryside by a good friend named Klaus Wenske.
Things you read, smell, taste, trip over, find or see can trigger memories of days gone by. This posting was triggered when one of my kids sent me a message on FaceBook that Zelda Rubinstein, who played the medium, Tangina in Poltergeist had passed away. She was a small medium. For this story, it was
When Its Not Your Time To Die! A friend in Israel sent this video to me! It truly is remarkable. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPwKAU3JV8I
Tough Choices, But worry not! The solution is at the bottom of the post! Which do you prefer?
It was a while back when Jody our younger daughter attended OU (Ohio University) in Athens Ohio. Athens is a university town in south eastern ohio. Jody was an undergrad with an interest in speech therapy. One of her assignments was to do a study of speech patterns and dialects within the state of Ohio.
Good fences make good neighbors, or so they say. We moved into a brand new subdivision in 1974, and that summer I organized a “fencing party” on our side of the street. We had the owners of about 10 homes over at our house one Saturday afternoon in the spring. The homes were all in