Family Happy Hanukkah 2019 SimonDecember 28, 20190 We have had a few nice Hanukkah celebrations this week. But it has been a little bittersweet. In recent years we,...
Family Happy Christmas SimonDecember 25, 20192 In the late 1960s when I was a hippie carpenter in upstate NY I drove a VW van like this. It had a terrible heater...
Family Happy Thanksgiving 2019 SimonNovember 27, 20190 My Thanksgiving post from 2008: Happy Thanksgiving by Simon on November 27, 2008 Thanksgiving is one of my two...
Family Eva Gold Memorial Dinner SimonNovember 15, 20190 Pink Stuff Last month when Eva Gold, Nurit's mother, was in Hospice in a coma at age 92 Lillian and Rebecca came to...
DECLINE Eva Gold RIP SimonNovember 7, 20191 On October 6, 2019 my Mother-in-Law Eve Judit Gold died of old age. She lived and amazing life of danger, change...
Family Oregon Travel SimonSeptember 23, 20190 It was the height of the short tourist season on the Oregon Coast when we visited. We stayed by the bridge in Newport...
Family Glass Blowing SimonSeptember 16, 20190 On our trip to Oregon last month our daughters organized for us to go to a glass blowing studio and have a lesson. I...
Family One Bridge SimonSeptember 9, 20190 Our daughter organized a weeks vacation for our family in Newport, Oregon. She said it had a view of the bridge....
Family The Keys of a Life SimonAugust 9, 20190 The key to happiness is low expectations. The keys of a life are even more prosaic. These are the keys that I found...
DECLINE Ancient Wisdom SimonJune 22, 20190 "I speak German, English and Hebrew. I don’t even remember learning any of those languages but I still know...