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WYFP: Quarantine Life
This past Thursday, I “celebrated” my first major Thanksgiving as a widow, Thanksgiving. More after the Shameless Plug Department: A recap — this past May, my husband, the beloved (if frustrating) Mr....
View ArticleWYFP? The Conversion Is Coming! Fresh Squeezed Jew Being Served Dec 14th! (An...
So just before Covid hit in March, I was in the same situation I find myself in now — anticipating my formal conversion to Judaism after a long and weird path to get here that involved exes, mental...
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Jewelry Sale ~ for men too!
Especially for men (not that all of it isn’t fine for men):Earth Necklace #2 – Unakite, stone, glass beads – 24" necklace – $50.Bumble Bee Necklace – glass beads – 23" necklace – $30.Adventure...
View ArticleRequiem for a Voice
I lost my voice on May 11, 2020. The voice that sang bass in choruses performing works by Bach, Mozart, Rutter, Brahms, Berlioz, Verdi, and many others. The voice that taught many folks about science...
View ArticleWYFP - New Beginnings Third Time Is the Charm
Last Sunday I packed a bag, snuggled Nigel goodbye and drove to Metarie for the first time since April? A long time. I pulled into my hotel, got checked in and upstairs — got ready for my appointment...
View ArticleWYFP? Boxing Day Open Thread
I got nuthin’.No, reallyExcept openings:January 2: Cali Scribe January 9: January 16: January 23: January 30:
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WYFP: Things Left Undone
For much of the past 33 years, since (the now late) Mr. Scribe and I became an official couple, I’ve been a part of the Episcopal Church. I still consider myself an Episcopalian even though I’m...
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WYFP? Open Thread
What is your f’ing problem?Republican senators say they feel a sense of growing regret over not standing up to President Trump sooner — a day after a violent mob ransacked the Capitol building in one...
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WYFP - Back To School
So Wednesday morning, Mum and I set off before 7 to the local surgical hospital to have some burly Grace T tubes put in my ears. I went in and got set up and waited for a while until they were ready...
View ArticleEnoch and Ada: The Story of bigjac, chapter one
This is a list of chapters for the story of bigjac:1. Enoch and Ada, my father’s parents.2. Little Don (my father’s childhood.)3. Mark and Edna, my mother’s parents.4. Little Eva (my mother’s...
View ArticleFund raising project for bigjac, Tonia, and our tall, smart, nephew's college...
www.gofundme.com/… Appeal for my wife and I, and our nephew:I no longer work outside our home, and my wife, Tonia, is on disability, so, all we have coming in, as income, is her disability check, and...
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WYFP? Open Thread
xIn a 2014 campaign ad produced by Tom Cotton for Senate, Cotton claimed he “made tough decisions as an Army Ranger in Iraq.”@iAmTheWaraxpic.twitter.com/OlLmPnKIL9— Jeff Nichols (@backwards_river)...
View ArticleI Smoke My Friends Down to the Filter
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering”Tom Waits TW“Little Drop of Poison”from which the title of this diary was taken.Settle in, with a glass of...
View ArticleWYFP - Recto-cranial Inversion
Another week gone, another week I fucked up. I was unprepared for 3 classes again this week, I am having a hard time keeping up with the reading. I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it yet, but...
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WYFP? Holding Pattern Edition
Wednesday noon, I went downstairs from my apartment in my retirement community to check my mail; with much of life here shut down for COVID protections (social distancing, dining room closed and all...
View ArticleWYFP - Figuring Out Professors
Another week gone by and the semester moves forward. I’ve been struggling with the sheer volume of materials this semester, between 3 higher division seminars and two science classes it’s been a bit...
View ArticleWYFP? --- Not being able to go outside.
Another week, another week trapped inside.I know I am not unique in that since the time of COVID-19 many of us are trapped inside, but I live it to the extreme.I cannot even set out of my room. I live...
View ArticleWYFP - Frelich Purim!
So it’s Friday, just before Shabbat as I’m writing this — and today was Purim, which is kind of the Jewish Mardi Gras, so we read the megillah (scroll) of the Book of Esther last night and this...
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WYFP: 62
I’m writing this on Thursday, March 4, 2021 — my 62nd birthday.Wanted to get this done and queued just because I don’t know what Saturday will bring. First of all, I’ve got my second Moderna shot...
View ArticleMFP: health issues keep popping up. WYFP?
Ugh.I am in a no win battle against my own body. I swear I have every kind of doctor except for an OBGYN.My main current issues are uti and stomach/gut based. You name the stomach issue and I have it....
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