Category: yenta

Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury!

One of my dirtiest personal secrets is: I was a nerd. (Some of you are rolling you’re eyes like, “Was? As in, no longer? Huh.”) I was a total nerd; I was happiest being left alone, with my dog, Dynamite (Come on. I was eight when I named her.), reading. Voraciously, obsessively reading. Reading anything…
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August 24, 2011 0

Let’s just admit it: I am a yenta. A Jewrican yenta: it gives me endless pleasure to get involved and help people solve their problems. Obviously, in a former life, I was an kvetchy, elderly yenta match-maker in the Pale of Settlement, nagging people to, “Settle, settle!” Then, a lot of  unpleasant yet fascinating history…
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August 4, 2011 0