Karen LApr 13 minA ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEETI came across the name Cohany today. The person whose last name is Cohany is Jewish, but I thought, mm, sounds Irish too. What's with...
Karen LMar 162 minSHIRLEY TEMPLE HAIROwners look like their dogs and vice versa. Dogs and their keepers adapt to one another, so their appearances bear a resemblance. I saw...
Karen LJan 274 minIT'S HIGH TIMEHigh time that people are educated about speech and language. As is my usual stance, I am baffled that Americans remain misinformed....
Karen LJan 212 min"Be Best" (on the eve of the best--LAST--hours of the Trump years)What a stupid, stupid phrase. Be Best what? Be the best person you can be is probably what someone in Melania Trump's circle was...
Karen LDec 10, 20203 minA Chanukah StoryDecember 2019 Our group completed an arduous tour of the Majdanek Labor/Death Camp in Lublin, Poland. Among all of the Holocaust sites...
Karen LNov 6, 20201 minMy Friday Gifthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYZa8asU4o Listen to the writers. You won't be disappointed. Thank you.
Karen LOct 17, 20205 minMore Musings on RacismRacism has been with humankind for centuries. Americans focus on our sin of slavery. After slavery was abolished, a more subtle form of...
Karen LAug 22, 20203 minKase for Karen/Case for CarenLaugh all you want. LOL. OMG. You, too, if you are lucky, will be middle aged and older some day. Let's get some basics out of the way....
Karen LJul 9, 20206 minAntiracismChallenging, New, Fresh, Comprehensive--How To Be An Antiracist(Audiobooks version),by Ibram Kendi, encompasses those qualities....
Karen LJun 6, 20203 minTwo Train CarsOdd as it seems, my sister, brother, and I embarked on a transcontinental rail trip, with our parents, in August 1968. The train conveyed...
Karen LJun 6, 20202 minMarching with a Mask; Learning a LessonGuilty as charged with the crime of grasping my purse to my body when passing a young black male on the street, especially when alone....
Karen LMay 25, 20202 minSoft SpotsThe soft spots on an infant's head do not remain a long time. So it is with my psyche. I feel a softness so seldomly these days. This...
Karen LApr 16, 20202 minCritical ThinkingOften, we are told to utilize our critical thinking skills. Or commentators and politicians report that schools fail to teach reasoning...
Karen LApr 4, 20202 minThoughts from Rabbi Elliot KuklaRabbi Kukla is a rabbi in the San Francisco Bay area. He suffers from a chronic disease. His recent article in The J rang true to me....
Karen LApr 2, 20202 minCoronavirus 2020Coronavirus 2020 Another grey day Of solitary walkers Hidden in their thoughts Coming down the path. “Watch out! That’s not 6 feet.” My...
Karen LMar 21, 20202 minSocial Action and the Coronavirus A Jewish Perspective Coronavirus and social action, you ask? Strange notion, I know, given we are told “to wash our hands” and to “distance ourselves from...
Karen LMar 8, 20204 minNotes from The German TraumaThe book is a collection of essays, written from the 1970's to the very early 21st century. The writer, Gita Sereny, was born in 1923 in...
Karen LFeb 22, 20203 minYou May Not Like These Ideas--Difficult to digest"These perpetrators are like serial killers, only they operate on a much larger scale, at a national or continental level. They certainly...
Karen LFeb 17, 20204 minThe Case for Serious Change"...both principles and an insistence on engaging with a world that often doesn’t have space for them." Quinta Jurecic, Atlantic...
Karen LJan 11, 20201 minRocks on Rocks (Treblinka, Dec. 2019)Rocks on rocks--little ones, big ones, jagged, round, smooth, rough. Yisgadal v' yiskadash shmei raba Memory upon memory. Sadness for...
