Month: June 2016

Speech #1 Sophie Frantz   When I was younger I had a lot of questions about being Jewish. I knew that we celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas, and our house was lit up with a menorah instead of lights on a Christmas tree. In the spring we would search for afikomen instead of pastel colored … Read more

My brother’s wedding!  How delightfully un-middle-aged it sounded to think about my brother getting married.  People my age talk more about our kids getting married, if we’re lucky, but usually not our siblings. Despite the sound of it, though, this was, alas, a middle-aged event after all.  A second marriage for both of them, the complications of children … Read more