Tag Archives: immigrants

Of immigrants, education, fighting and mobsters

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Naomi

Long, long, long before my encounter with a classic schoolyard bully, my grandfather Jacob took ship from Paris to Boston. At fourteen years old, he was escaping the strictures of Judaic Orthodoxy — which he had reckoned was unhealthy, especially … Continue reading →

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Trump has lost his afflatus.

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Naomi

Yucky-sounding word, isn’t it? Afflatus. Sounds like something you wouldn’t want to lose in a criminal courtroom. Sounds so Trumpy. It’s a rare enough word so that it isn’t in my Compact Oxford English Dictionary (“compact” is the word I … Continue reading →

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Actual animal news re sheep, a horse, a moose and super pigs

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review, a small series on possibly pissed off animals: Nearly 20 sheep escaped from a seminary in Minnesota. A horse drove its carriage into four cars in New York. “This moose has brought so much joy to … Continue reading →

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