cooking lots. Of course. I understand festivities and feasts very well, but I am ambivalent about Christmas. Being Jewish means not believing in Christ, so the festival that celebrates the birth of the person who is perceived by Christians as... Read More

enjoying the beginning of spring, even as it lurches from winter to spring and backwards and forwards again until it is summer. The parsley is going to seed, the chervil is lush, the chives have multiplied, the not-long-planted thymes are... Read More