Rainbow!
Class Photos Through the Years
Shaare Tefila nursery school, 1981. I’m in the red shirt in the back row. I’m standing next to a girl (pink dress) who was born on the same day, in the same hospital as I was. We also went to middle school and high school together. Sheri Goff is in the pink shirt standing two over from my right. I went to Hebrew school and college with her, where we had a Hebrew class together. Here’s an article about what happened to her and her family.
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25 Years Later
On May 8, 1991, my neighbors, Joseph (12) and John (11) Augustine died in a car accident on the corner of Route. 29 and Crestmoor Drive.
I didn’t find out until I got home from school when I got a phone call from a local reporter who asked me for a comment. It was the first I had heard of it and needless to say, I was upset. (Years later, I learned of another death from a reporter who called me.)
Today, it’s been 25 years since it happened. Their parents still live in the house next to the one I grew up in, where my father still lives.
Here is the original Washington Post article.
My Birthday, Then Mother’s Day
‘The Witch’ Is Not Feminist, Unless Feminism Is Evil
When I first saw the trailer for The Witch, I immediately made plans to watch it. It takes a lot to get me to see films in theaters these days, but this caught my attention. Continue reading “‘The Witch’ Is Not Feminist, Unless Feminism Is Evil”