It’s been Bar and Bat Mitzvah season here in New York and some of my friends have 13-year-olds so they’re “on the circuit.”

I went to a Catholic university (no regrets, and I was haphazardly raised as a “Catholic” but I’m about as Catholic as Barack Obama) and I had an intro poli-sci class, taught by a Jewish visiting professor.

You can. I work with a lot of graphic designers and if the clients don’t supply photos and don’t want to pay for photoshoots they do photo research. A lot of stuff is public domain, which the clients typically prefer, because free, but the better stuff is licensed, and a lot of clients will go for that. Become a photo…

I’ve never been to Toronto but I feel like I have since so many of the property/real estate shows are based in Toronto and people are buying, loving and listing, and rehabbing. The whole city must move houses at least once a year. They never say exactly where they are but I know a Canadian accent when I hear one (my…

I agree, but when war comes to you the women step up! Golda Meir was the PM of Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. She and all the other Israelis whipped their foes’ asses, despite being vastly outnumbered.

That’s amazing. Did you have that on your hard drive revved up and ready to go?

On the other hand I’ve actually heard of all three of these people so I don’t feel completely ancient and out of touch, like I do when I hear about Ariana Grande or Rita Ora. I’m waiting for more Joan Didion discussions.

Have you ever heard Tom Brady speak? I love Tom Brady and stumbled across some kind of bio on a sports channel or something and he talked about growing up in CA and other stuff. He didn’t do too badly but I had to remind myself that I was listening to a multi-millionaire grown adult male, not a precocious…

If you’re in the northern part of the state you’re really close to Branson, Missouri. Wait, that’s not a positive. Never mind.

I use the Yiddish term gonif when I feelI’m being cheated. Although never in New York because even non-Jews like me pick up a fair amount of Yiddish.

So a yenta.

The (Jewish) holidays are coming and I think I know what I’m going to be getting for my husband. Not that either of us are Jewish and not that you exchange presents on Rosh Hashanah and expecially not Yom Kippur, but whatever, G_d will understand. I hope.

Or how about newly divorced Christian male siblings who don’t know how to cook?

Or Grindr.

I just rewatched this video. I work from home and when I complete one assignment I take a small break and move on to the next. This drove my dog crazy. Where are all the new friends I could be playing with? Where is that squeaky toy? Poor guy.

My elementary school principal was a veteran of WWII, as were many of the kids’ fathers, that or Korea, and the principal referred to all of us as “little shavers.” But not “kiddos,” that would have been a bridge too far.

If it makes you feel any better a friend of mine did his high school AP American History project on why the Civil War was not about slavery. He’s now a tenured professor of American History at a fairly prestigious public university well north of the Mason-Dixon line.

We didn’t have Target in New York, this was so long ago. I wish I had stocked up on cigarettes before we went in, though, because even though the Canadian dollar was very weak then the cigarette prices were astronomical. For the time. I gave up smoking around the time Mayor Billionberg jacked the prices up to US$14 a…

They test those air raid sirens from time to time and sometimes use them to summon members of volunteer fire departments. When I was in college some of my cronies rented a beach house for spring break in a town we’d never been to before. The siren went off and we were at the beach and no one seemed to panic. A…

That was my first thought. I’m so old that we had a fallout shelter in my elementary school and we had nuclear attack drills, we all knew what The Bomb was and saw black-and-white grainy videos of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the tests at the Bikini Atoll. But if my principal had referred to us as…