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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: The Science Behind the Kiss!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Sheril Kirshenbaum [1], science writer and author of the recent book, The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, sheds light on exactly what goes on biologically when we lock lips. Kissing basically “acts like a drug by stimulating the natural chemicals in our bodies, yet unlike other [...]

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I Hadn’t the Vegas Idea! *

My beloved SG and I were having a discussion the other day about the fact that I am always right. Well, almost always, anyway. She asked me to tell her about a time when I was totally, incredibly, unbelievably wrong. I immediately mentioned Las Vegas, 1985. Long ago, when I was very much younger… “Like [...]

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Bigger, Scarier Weapons Help Spiders Get the Girl!

Wandering, as I am wont to do, through the pages of ScienceDaily.com, I thought… how about checking out the latest studies in arachnid sex!? Which brought me in pretty quick order to their recent article… Bigger, Scarier Weapons Help Spiders Get the Girl! Yes, boys and girls, size matters… at least to male jumping spiders… at [...]

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Tova’s Wedding!!

On Monday December 5, 2011, SG and I had the great pleasure and honour of attending at the wedding in Toronto of our dear friends’ wonderful daughter, Tova, to a fine young gentleman, Yakov Zev. (Tova, her family and husband, Yakov Zev) Tova and I have been friends since she was a little girl.  What [...]

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Why Our Brains Make Us Laugh

Wandering, as I am wont to do, along the littered, soft gravel shoulders of the information superhighway, I stumbled across an interesting article last week in the online edition of The Boston Globe. The article’s title, in part, reads… Why Our Brains Make Us Laugh. My first thought was, “Why do we need or even [...]

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Back from Toronto!

Back home after spending five fun-filled days in Toronto. Attended the semi-annual plenary session of the County & District Law Presidents Association (CDLPA). Interesting and informative. I also got to reconnect with colleagues from across the province. Especially fun were the representatives from my neck o’ the woods, specifically Hamilton, Haldimand, Norfolk and Welland counties. [...]

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Shabbes at the Holy Adas Israel!

I had the pleasure of spending Shabbes at the Adas Israel Congregation of Hamilton, Ontario. It’s been years since I was last at that shul. I’d forgotten how many wonderful people I know there. The Kiddie-Winkers, my daughter Exhibit One and my son Exhibit Two, attended full-time hebrew day school at the Hamilton Hebrew Academy [...]

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Snombies: A Hypothetical Conversation

The music played, the party-goers partied, the servers served and the bartender tended bar. The 2011 Halloween bash was well under way and well-attended, at least from what I could see from my vantage point. (Halloween Central – My home away from home) At a table near the back, I sat with my dear friend [...]

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