by Debra Darvick | Nov 30, 2008 | Musings
Just want to announce my daughter’s new website, emmadarvick.com. In answer to the question, “What’s Emma up to?” give a look. She’s been up to painting, drawing, photographing her world. Drop her a line. Leave a comment on the site. And...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 23, 2008 | Musings
With Thanksgiving coming up and the world crashing down, we’re in order for some gratitude. For a few chuckles read The Ten Gifts of Rejection Letters. And with your heart lightened start counting your blessings. You have fingers that work your keyboard. you...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 19, 2008 | Bookshelf
Ich been nit a yid (I am not a Jew) is likely one of the stranger sentences ever uttered in Yiddish. This was Peter Manseau’s answer to the puzzled, elderly Jews whose Yiddish books he had come to rescue and who stood in silence, appraising his lanky form and...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 17, 2008 | Bookshelf
What is the little creature on the left? Dragon? Dinosaur? Your goofy neighbor up the street? What’s this creature’s name? Harvey? Lola? Chuckles? Psychologist Susann Linn, in town promoting her book The Case for Make Believe, showed her audience a slide...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 14, 2008 | Bookshelf
What links could I possibly draw between Rabbi David Wolpe (named this year by Newsweek as America’s #1 rabbi) and Evan Handler, who played Harry Greenblatt, the Jewish, bald, and often naked lawyer on Sex in the City? More than you might think. Besides the fact...
