Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Israeli Music Monday #2
Tweet I can say, without a doubt, that my love of and knowledge regarding Israeli music is a direct result of my years Young Judaea‘s Camp Tel Yehudah. Every day after lunch we’d have a camp-wide sing-along, working our way through the camp songbook, calling out [Read More]
Israeli Music Monday #1
Tweet On a drizzly Sunday morning in Niskayuna, NY, as my family and I were heading out the door to attend a picnic for my 20th high school reunion, a quick look at the news revealed that an Israeli soldier had been kidnapped. The date was June 25th, 2006. It’s been [Read More]
Introducing… Israeli Music Monday
Tweet As some of you may remember, several years ago I wrote a weekly blog post for a series I called “80s Music Video Sunday“. Having grown up in the 80s, the music of that decade was the background music of my teen years – the theme music for my teenage [Read More]
Thank You Again…
Tweet Greetings, my faithful readers. Those of you who have been reading this blog for at least the past month should be well-aware of the little saga involving a certain song (“Thank You”, by Lionel Bastos) I received for my birthday, a song that I’d been [Read More]
The Greatest Thank You Letters
Tweet During the four years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve made no secret of the difficult path we traveled in our quest to have a child. Following a series of failed pregnancies and the loss of one son born too prematurely and with too many problems to [Read More]
I’ve got the music in me…
Tweet At the Little One’s brit milah celebration, the Husband surprised me with a birthday cake of my own. My son was supposed to have been born on my birthday, but when the contractions began on the evening of May 26th, 2004, I knew that our birthdays were not going [Read More]
Jo Jo was a Man who thought he was Alona…
Tweet “Put me the Beatles, Aba.” “Put on the Beatles for me, Aba,” I corrected over my shoulder, as we began our daily morning drive to the train station. “Put on the Beatles for me, Aba,” repeated the Little One. “Who are the [Read More]
80s Music Video Sunday #50
Tweet Despite the dearth of political postings lately, anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while probably has at least an inkling as to my political leanings. I was in favor of the Disengagement (though I believe that the way the government has treated the [Read More]
80s Music Video #49
Tweet When we got married, we chose to go to Jamaica for our honeymoon. I had gone there for Spring Break during my junior year at university, and having had a taste of only one part of this beautiful island, I was anxious to see what else Jamaica had to offer. And, if I [Read More]
80s Music Video Sunday #48
Tweet Aaaah… CHOO! ‘Scuse me, folks, but I’ve been hit with a nasty cold that I just can’t seem to shake. Two pots of soup (one chicken and the other lentil), and countless bowls of oatmeal and cups of tea (and I don’t even like tea!) later, [Read More]
