These days everyone is walking outdoors! Corona is a hard master and some of my Riverdale friends are even taking twice daily constitutionals. Although there are many picturesque streets and numerous parks here, Riverdale is a relatively small neighborhood with approximately 48,000 residents. And from the perspective of my windows, most of them are on […]
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Art Course in College Ancient Greek Statue Back in the 60s when I was in college, an art course was required to fulfill the basic Core course requirements. I signed up for the introductory course, listed as “History of Art”. Greek sculpture had already defined my esthetic and a semester devoted to art originating in
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I clearly prefer the growing months to the wintertime with its uncomfortably low temperatures. However, one consequence of the higher temperatures of spring and summer of which I am not enamored are the assorted creatures that enter my house. While I will get the occasional mouse, the really unwelcome visitors are insects! Weeks ago I
Photo of Gribenes by Marco Verch When we were young and my mother was preparing chicken for Shabbos – the Jewish Sabbath which runs from sunset Friday night until an hour past sunset Saturday night – she would cut off the excess chicken skin and fat and make gribenes although our term for it was
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You Do Not Just Buy a House We moved into our present home almost forty years ago. While the property had lawns front and back, there was little evidence that the previous owners were interested in gardening or landscaping. There were, however, lovely trees, some of which were quite large. In the front, close to
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While reading became a source of great pleasure for me, writing is an altogether different matter. Elementary school was full of compositions and book reports. In high school and beyond, no semester was complete without at least one research paper. And I cannot say that I ever enjoyed it! Sometimes the research was personally interesting,
I wasn’t always an avid reader. I remember being in first grade and being taught from the Dick and Jane series how to read. For the life of me, even at six years old, I could not fathom how anyone could rouse any interest in “Watch Dick run” or “Look at Spot.” Apparently I did