Dinner with Friends

(currently playing: A:Xus, Soundtrack for Life) My friend, Liz, was born in Saudi Arabia. Ethnically, though, she’s about as Arabian as me (i.e. about as Arabian as your average horseshoe crab). Grew up speaking Arabian as much as she spoke English. So we had dinner tonight. Buck and Dwight (her husband) kindly accompanied us. And Continue reading Dinner with Friends

bleh.

Had to be at a benefit dinner last night. One we go to every year. Next year, I promise: I’m going to a movie instead. Soaked in a hot tub this morning to bring my core body temperature up from the deathlike levels it had sunk to overnight, so I haven’t done my morning Shema Continue reading bleh.

Yom Kippur

Services in the morning, nap in the afternoon, dinner with friends this evening. A nice, simple day, whose fast was broken early for me due to a horribly acidy stomach that needed food to quiet it. (Have had stomach problems since I was 19.) Wish I had something pithy to say at the end of Continue reading Yom Kippur