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Downsides of today: rain snow melting snow ice cloudy sky it’s February Upsides of today: it’s not as cold as it has been the cats are okay, mostly it’s quiet I have enough cheese, crackers and wine to last for weeks it’s almost March
Eddie, the wonderful orange and white cat, has cancer. He started on chemo yesterday, which may help him to last as long as six months. I’m assured that chemo won’t be debilitating for him, and he may even be in the 30% of cats whose tumors shrink. He has shaved patches on his arms, for … Continue reading Eddie the Cat.
It’s been a month and a day since Mom died. And in that time, I’ve lived a month and a day and a year. I’ve gone through her stuff: everything from learning about her estate plan, to pulling her purses off the shelf of her closet and digging through her desk drawers. I leafed through … Continue reading Mom
Meryl Yourish responds to Sasha Volokh’s saying that he doesn’t see the moral uniqueness of the Holocaust: Its uniqueness was due to the fact that a nation set out to exterminate all the people in a certain ethnic group, all over the world. Hitler started with the Jews of Europe, and did an astonishingly thorough … Continue reading moral uniqueness
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