Conversation on typical summer day at home:
(Parent to kid:) Beach? (kid to Parent:) Not again! (P to K:) Pool? (K to P:) Been there, done that. (P to K:) Mall? (K to P:) But we’ve seen all the movies already!
Well, it was a good try. Looks like another day of TV watching and web surfing. Can’t something be done about eliminating August from the calendar – anything to get school to start sooner? The kids may waste just as much time in school as they do at home, but at …
There are lots of people out there with great ideas and opinions. But there are also lots of – forgive the term – “whack jobs.” It’s no secret – just check out the talkback section on many on-line articles, especially those with controversial content. Many comments are direct and to the point, but with some of these writers (you know the ones I mean!), it’s often hard to believe that we’re all living in the same country. I sometimes wonder if we’re on the same planet!
I know that many of …
They say you’re not supposed to go supermarket shopping on an empty stomach – you’re likely to buy stuff you don’t need because you’re hungry. But “they” have never gone supermarket shopping in Israel on a Thursday night; anyone who does learns very quickly that it’s kedai to come hungry!
Borekas, pasta, yogurt, pretzels, humus, newfangled juice drinks – that was just a partial list of the offerings available for sampling by customers in the super-mega-club-deal market we went to the other day. The sample stands inside the market are staffed …
Report card time is coming up, so we’re all gearing ourselves up to put on a good show for our kids, telling them how proud we are of them. A 92 in social studies? Yes, very nice. A 95 in language? Bravo, huzzah! The “chef of the future” award in home economics? My son/daughter, the genius!
But what’s this? A 99 in – ALGEBRA!? Finally, a real academic achievement! Now the celebration can really begin! Not to take anything away from the other no-doubt essential subjects our children will undoubtedly draw …
If there’s one thing humanity should have learned by now, it’s the importance of communication – of figuring out ways to make sure people understand each other. How many wars could be prevented if people in competing cultures would be able to speak each other’s language, to explain to each other their concerns and common interests? Nations, tribes, individuals, even computers – can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. War may be bad for computers and other living things, but the “authorities” have done little to prevent war …
