Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 5): Creamer Eyes

You may have seen them out of the corner of your eye… at the next table or across the restaurant. Sometimes, you may have had the misfortune of seeing them up close and personal, across the table from you. No matter how you run into them or how they are inflicted upon you… the result [...]

Read Full Post »

Are We Attracted To Our Opposite?

They say that opposites attract. That presumes that the attraction is mutual, I suppose. (The gun totin’ Southern Redneck Good Ole Girl) I’m not sure that is always, or even often, the case. (Hitler Youth – more my son’s type than mine, really… but still…) Take the example some of the kinds of women to whom [...]

Read Full Post »

Sullivan Ballou Letter – Ashoken Farewell

I’ve not yet had the opportunity to see Ken Burns’ masterful work, The Civil War. But I did see this one clip. [1] A week before the Battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou, a Major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife, Sarah, in Smithfield. The letter was written from Washington, D.C. [...]

Read Full Post »

Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 5): CW & the Orange Smile

Years ago, my beloved friend, CW, and I were sitting down to dinner. We’d met not long before and were still very much in the ‘getting to know each other’ phase of our relationship. Things were going very well. We were both quite fond of one another. Conversation was light, entertaining and quite enjoyable. We [...]

Read Full Post »

Exhibit Two Flies Back to Israel!

Tomorrow morning, May 1, 2012, my son, Exhibit Two [1], flies off back to Israel. He is taking part in the Jerusalem Fellowships program for three weeks, studying at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem as well as traveling to various other places as part of the program. His sister, my daughter Exhibit One, did the program last [...]

Read Full Post »

Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 3): Rendezvous at Sadie’s Diner & Juice Bar

If I ever need to set up a quick, informal yet special rendezvous with someone near and dear to me, I choose Sadie’s Diner & Juice Bar in downtown Toronto. Sadie’s is on the northwest corner of Portland and Adelaide streets. One block east of Bathurst and two blocks south of Queen Street West. My [...]

Read Full Post »

Sex-starved fruit flies driven to drink more alcohol!

Let’s file this under the “Yew jus’ cain’t make this $#!t up!” category, shall we? Apparently… and I am NOT making this stuff up… sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of modern man’s ‘That’s the Story of My Life!’ When female fruit flies reject their [...]

Read Full Post »

Why Guys Are Such Sucks When They’re Sick

It’s pretty much common knowledge that when a guy gets sick, he turns into a big, kvetchy, insufferable sucky-baby. Why is this? Well, I have a theory that I developed this past week when I myself was down with a cold. It started as a cough last Wednesday, then developed into a pretty darn annoying [...]

Read Full Post »

Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 2): Finger Eleven at Mossimo’s

Until last year, I had never heard of the band Finger Eleven. There is a song they did (Paralyzer) that does, however, sound familiar to me. But the name ‘Finger Eleven’ did not become burned into my memory until one lovely Sunday afternoon when my dear friends Ray, JM and JM’s son were enjoying a [...]

Read Full Post »

Partners in Torah

A few weeks ago, I signed up with a program called Partners in Torah. It is run by that fabulous adult Jewish education organization, Aish HaTorah. [1] The premise is quite simple. People who, for various reasons, cannot get together with a study partner to learn Torah, Jewish history, Hebrew, Talmud, Halacha (Jewish law), and [...]

Read Full Post »