It was crazy dangerous, this Aliyah Bet thing. Still, over two decades, more than 100,00 people, 70,000 of them Holocaust survivors, dared to sign on. Let’s call it: Adventure.

I confess, like math, cosmology, and my mom’s recipe for Baked Green-beans, the traditional, mythical Christmas story may well benefit from honest review.

It was exciting, really, a letter that arrived last Saturday from the IRS.

“What’s to know about bacteria?” say we, with a shrug of a shoulder; we who know close to nothing about it.

Actually, I said, “She’s riding nicely.” Then . . .

“We agreed that the body she inhabited was doing its finishing work . . .”

“He was tragically wrong . . . yet never doubted the rightness of what he did.” Bill Bryson

It’s true. Stress creates a “fight or flight” response in humans. However, say some experts in such matters (and who am I to argue with Experts in Such Matters), the female of our species . . .

Hold on. This blog post promises not to be easy reading. Simple, perhaps, the way navigating a maze is simple – one foot in front of the other.

A lie. I created one recently. A major misrepresentation of truth. But, you know, a good one.

I chose earrings this morning that I haven’t had in my ears in years. I bought them, along with the festive necklace they match, in a Philadelphia department store.

They delivered a dehydrator that cycles sound similar to a tugboat running through sea swells. It’s comforting, that sound

Elevators.

Learn from elevators.

Lickety-Split! Scurry-Hurry!

Shepherds ran into each other Stepped on other’s toes and tripped over sheep as they rushed to the village seeking a stable with a lantern still lit . , .

“It tastes different from the last ciabatta you made.”

We all know strange things make sense in dreams . . .

Wait! I have family, friends, and acquaintances expert enough in fields of politics, theology, ethics, finance, science, and social do’s & don’ts to turn statements of “seems to me” to “no question about it.”