Have you ever noticed how gym mirrors tend to distort, like funhouse mirrors? If you are short and solidly built like me, you don’t find much fun in that kind of mirrors – for some reason they never make you look taller and slimmer than you really are. My personal solution to those mirrors has … Continue reading Looking in the Funhouse Mirror
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Twelve Years an Orphan
Today is my mother's yahrzeit, the anniversary of her death in the Hebrew calendar. In the common calendar it won't be for another couple of weeks, but I like to observe it the traditional way. My children were very young when they lost their grandmother - my eldest had just turned seven, my second son … Continue reading Twelve Years an Orphan
On Mothering a Teenaged Driver
Last week a 17-year-old Winnipeg girl died. She was riding in an SUV with her friends at 1 o'clock on a weekday afternoon, when the vehicle hit a tree. She was ejected from the car and was killed. Her friends were all hurt, and charges have been laid against the 17-year-old driver.This story would have … Continue reading On Mothering a Teenaged Driver