This is the second post in a mini-series about blood. The first post is found here; the series was interrupted because of the Jewish holidays.
Continue reading It’s in the blood?
I’m sorry- there will be no post tomorrow (Monday) or Tuesday
These are the first days of the holiday of Sukot, when work is not permitted.
Continue reading It’s Sukot (The Holiday of Boot
Whether we truly believe that our sukot (the plural of suka) are to remind us that we traveled for 40 years in the desert- or we needed to preempt the pagan harvest festival that occurred this time of year three millennia ago- is truly immaterial. Because we have found our own meaning in the suka- to remind us that our lives are transient, our lives are fragile, and our lives require our efforts along with Hashem’s help.
Continue reading More holidays? Yes- this one has 9 more days.
This is the first of three or four (I may coalesce some) about our blood system. I am sorry that it’s been moved around so much in the queue that they won’t appear in three consecutive days [because of all the Jewish holidays]. But, by next week the series will be posted in full.
Continue reading What Your Blood Can Tell You
The 10th Day of Tishrei. That’s (tonight and) tomorrow’s Hebrew Date, which means it will be Yom Kipur. The end of 40 days of introspection, repentance, and preparing ourselves to be better humans and to make the world a better place- with renewed vigor.
This GM strike is just like US politics– deadlocked. There’s bad positioning- coupled with the lack of honesty in explaining why that position was taken in the first place.
Continue reading 22 skidoo. Really- it’s time.
It’s a new year. (Rosh Hashana was Monday and Tuesday.) Let’s start the controversies flowing quickly.
Continue reading I don’t wanna know!
It’s that time of year again.
When I get the dreaded phone call….
“The IRS says I owe a quarter million. Can you help me make it go away?”
Continue reading Can we settle?
You know how we read all these great articles telling us we need 7 hours of sleep- minimum. (35% of us don’t meet this standard, by the way.) Or, those other articles that claim we can’t multitask (or, as I call it, timeslice)?