by danya | Mar 27, 2007 | Blog
I think I’m done with the rough draft. More or less. I need to add two more paragraphs to the epilogue, but I’m fried like a fried thing and it’s not happening today. This afternoon is all about errands out in the three dimensions.
by danya | Mar 25, 2007 | Blog
Hot dang, I’m dangerously close to sewing up the first draft. 77,140 / 80,000(96.4%) That inching past 96% you see there is the result of my having worked Chapter Nine into the ground until it whimpered for mercy (or until I did; still not sure which.)...
by danya | Mar 25, 2007 | Blog
It is officially watermelon season.
by danya | Mar 23, 2007 | Blog
Soferet Jen Taylor Friedman has started a tefillin gemach for women, based in NYC. She explains, A gemach is a charity which lends things to people in need. Sometimes it’s basic stuff like plates, sometimes it’s wedding dresses, sometimes it’s...
by danya | Mar 23, 2007 | Blog
Award-winning playwright, performer and author S. Bear Bergman has got a new and extremely worthwhile project going on. Bear writes, Last month, someone told me I was her hero. I had gone to her small college and performed, and afterwards her classmates had begun to...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday was mostly about errands. I took a sweater into the dry cleaner–the guys I wave hi to every time I pass by, which is often–and, for not the first time, the owner wrote down my first name on a piece of paper, pinned it to the article of clothing,...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
Over the last few days, a tremendous number of people have gotten to this blog by googling, “How to protect yourself from demons.” I’d like to guess that since we’re in Nisan now and that chunk of Talmud I quoted on the topic a couple of years...
by danya | Mar 15, 2007 | Blog
Is it… snowing out? I think it is! It keeps alternating with rain, so it’s hard to tell, but that sure looks like big fluffy flakes of snow. Weird. ETA: It is SO snowing out!!! It looks like Christmas out here. Crrazzy.
by danya | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog
This would be a good time to draw folks’ attention to the Open Source Haggadah project. It’s not as robust a database as it could be, but it’s a nice idea. You click on all the different aspects of the seder (kadesh, urchatz, etc etc) and can then,...
