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So Many Things So Little Time Friday Round-Up
My husband found my black bra. It had gone missing because I sometimes dispense with my bra while I’m watching TV downstairs because, well, you know how it gets to feel around news hour. I was on a Zoom call this morning, chairing a meeting, when I heard my office door open. And there he was, in his shorts wearing my black bra. Not everyone has a husband who would put on his wife’s black bra to announce its return to civilization, but I do.
The local campaign I’ve been helping with has gotten seriously dirty. Today, our opponent basically called the people in my neighborhood “pro-genocide Zionists.” I’m not pro-genocide (is anyone?) and I’m not a Zionist (not sure what that entails) but I am a Jewish sympathizer having been married to a Jewish man for forty years and shepherding three kids through the bar/bat mitzvah process which is, let me tell you, not nothin’.
Because I am old and could give a rip, I take exceptions to insults such as the above. I’ll be damned if I’ll have my sweet husband and my peace-loving, serene neighborhood filled with rabbis and their wives, and their exuberant and playful children labeled as pro-genocide Zionists. So I talk back. Social media makes this easy. Otherwise, I’d have to write letters to the editor which takes a lot of time and then they always edit you, you know?
We have lost the base to our wok. I am a master of fried rice and had a plan to make an extraordinary dish with last night’s pork loin, celery, green and red peppers, onion, garlic, water chestnuts, and so many other wondrous things but now, alas, I will have to make fried rice in a frying pan. Lordy.
Yesterday, by some weird and wondrous quirk of fate, I had lunch with someone I’ve admired for a long time but never had a conversation with. If I detailed how this happened, you wouldn’t believe it. He said God was involved. He’s a pastor so I’ll take his word for it. The conversation was all over the place with a fair amount of truth telling which I wouldn’t have predicted. Being caught off-guard brings certain rewards, I guess.
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Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
You made me snort again- maybe actually it was Howard this time…the image in my head!
I am truly sorry you’re facing cultural and religious hate.