My sole duty this morning was to deliver bagels to Beth El synagogue, in Minneapolis suburb St. Louis Park. That’s where son #1’s bar mitzvah will be next weekend (very fortuitous timing, in light of today’s 10″ of snow in the Twin Cities). Traditionally, the upcoming “bar mitzvah family” provides the noshes for the bar/bat mitzvah...Read More
THERE It Is! (Almost) no one was complaining about the unseasonal 40’s (and 50’s!) lingering well past Thanksgiving, mind you. Still, to die-hard Minnesotans, it’s slightly discombobulating to see December on the calendar, and not be hunkered down — at least a little bit — contending with snow, ice, and subfreezing temp’s. Thanks to yesterday’s (mild)...Read More
Of all the reasons adduced for Mitt Romney’s election loss, perhaps the most surprising is that the Republicans’ “get-out-the-vote” technology lagged the Democrats’. Look for the 2016 Republican nominee — Chris Christie? Jeb Bush? — not to make the same mistake. P.S.: Sputnik, of course, was the 1957 satellite launched by the Soviets that served...Read More
How Close to Minnesota is Pennsylvania? Take it from someone whose license plate reads, “MY RLTR” (as in, “There goes my Realtor!”) — I know a clever marketing slogan when I see one. Still, you’ve got to wonder if a company named “Nearby Eggs” isn’t pushing the principle a tad too, umm . . . far, in...Read More
Sartorial Secrets Confessions I favor (relatively) expensive button-down shirts, so it seemed like a shame to toss an otherwise perfectly good shirt on account of a dime-sized ink stain. The solution (at least until it goes through the laundry)? A little bit of white-out.Read More
The Existential Waitress My family doesn’t normally go to a restaurant for Thanksgiving. But, given some extenuating circumstances this year, we decided to bite the bullet and go out. So, let’s just say it was . . . umm, food for thought when — after everyone had been served — the waitress doubled back to...Read More
