Penguin Girlthis week we read ki tavo, devarim/deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 (summary)
During this month of Elul we also sound the shofar each weekday morning. Some information about shofars may be found:
- wikipedia
- aish.com
- chabad
A shofar looks like this
שׁבּת שׁלום
Since I seem to be turning this week while we’re away into short quick questions to you…
The past two weeks I’ve told you what tools work for me, I’m curious, what works for you?
NPR has a podcast on books I listen to weekly. This summer Liane Hansen interviewed “summer readers” to see what they are reading. One of the questions is “if you had all the time in the world, what would you read”?
So I ask you, if you had all the time in the world, [...]
well, we’re traveling and that’s one of my favourite things to do, especially with my husband.
I’m not sure what I like best about it. I have noticed how no matter where we go so many things are the same (e.g. chain stores). Hope you are having a good week! I hope we are too.
Here’s [...]
Last week, Dwight Garner wrote a fascinating piece on commuting and reading: The Long Ride Home. I don’t read much on the subway anymore. It got to be too much heavy I was carrying around. These days I make sure to have enough knitting and if I remember my iPod. There is always at least [...]
In advance of our trip I seemed eager to use up odds and ends from the pantry.
Monday found Lychee Chicken (with soy chicken of course) on our dinner table. It was quite good and we ate it all up. Of course I only used a small portion of the large can of kosher lychees [...]
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