Here’s a meme that’s been going around. It’s called the bucket list. You have to review all 100 items and put in bold the ones you’ve already achieved in life. So, here — with my annotations — is my bucket list: I HAVE… 1. Started my own blog 2. Slept under the ...

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I like to bring you, dear reader, the latest Bigfoot reports. Just four months ago, in November 2008, a couple of experienced hunters were in the woods near the town of Zephyrhills, Florida, when they saw something that shocked them: “I went to a hunting spot to ...

I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time — a way to find out when particular movies or stars are going to be on TV. I don’t necessarily want to plan out and get DVDs all the time. This tool is called LocateTV and I tried it out. I searched for Sarah Silverman, John...

Life has been a little nuts.  We had the big ice storm, followed by the snow storm, but thankfully we were not without power.  Most of that melted and today we are getting more snow and the kids cannot wait to get out in it.  It looks like maybe 2 inches or so right now, but don...

I have a special fondness for Iceland, having gone there for a brief vacation back in the fall of 2001 on a trip offered by IcelandAir called “Midweek Madness.” My travel companion and I flew nonstop from Boston to Iceland in five hours and had a blast there! We went to the Blue Lagoon h...

Thanks, everyone, for the sympathy on my arm. It is still sore and stiff but it works well enough that I am still going tomorrow to visit my good friend in Fort Worth, Texas. I told her that I am going to pack light — just a backpack — as I cannot drag a suitcase behind me with my bum ar...

There are several foods that I find incredibly, unbelievably delicious and wonderful, yet I rarely eat them because they are not particularly healthy. Here’s the first one: It’s halvah (see photo). It’s a sweet, greasy candy with the consistency of crumbly sawdust. I guess it’...

Here in Boston we got a major amount of snow dumped on us this weekend, and tonight is the first night of Hanukkah. I was thinking of having friends over for latkes one night this week but with all the snow it’s practically impossible to find parking in my neighborhood. And frankly, I hate slo...

It’s been ten years since Edward Ball wrote his 1998 National Book Award-winning work Slaves in the Family. I just read it this week. It was amazing. Ball, 50, is a descendant of a long line of white, slave-owning South Carolinian plantation owners. Ball traces not only his family line, back t...

When I was in Fall River, Massachusetts, recently to tour the Lizzie Borden House, I had a fabulous meal afterwards at a Portuguese restaurant. I ordered the pork, littleneck clams and potatoes. This was an interesting dish for me to consume as it had not one, but two non-kosher elements. When I was...