My wife and I took the kids to see “Up” yesterday. My younger child is six, and he is at the point where he is almost ready to sit still for the duration of a movie. “Up” is a wonderful summer children movie. Only it isn’t a children’s movie at all. Of course, all children [...]
In 1967, the Israeli airforce took the Egyptian airforce by complete surprise, practically concluding the war before it even started. Superiority in the sky, we were taught, is everything. I certainly was not an accredited military strategist when I was young, nor am I today. But at the age of fifteen, I knew I wanted [...]
My wife sent this poem and the preceding paragraph to me over the email the other day. She sent it in Hebrew, and having read it, I realized that the original was written in English. I looked it up and found it easily. My wife didn’t send it without a reason. She sent it because [...]
Self explanatory. No offense to my own mother-in-law…
Do you feel the nasty looks when you get your midterm test back? Do you find that you peers are disturbed by your consistent A+ scores? Do you feel rejected by the “cool” guys when the instructor or teacher or professor mentions your name as exemplary student? Do you get cold shoulders from girls who [...]
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