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Judy Bolton-Fasman's Blog – October 2009 Archive (10)
Staking Out a Place in Foursquare
Staking Out a Place in Foursquare
By Judy Bolton- Fasman
Move over Twitter and Facebook, four square is no longer just for kids on the playground. It has been upgraded to Foursquare and dubbed the latest buzz-worthy mobile app (that's new media speak for application) in cyberspace.
While Facebook and Twitter revel in the minutia of teenagers' and babyboomers' lives - homework, yuck, here's pictures from a party you weren't invited to, doing mounds of laundry, broiling… Continue
By Judy Bolton- Fasman
Move over Twitter and Facebook, four square is no longer just for kids on the playground. It has been upgraded to Foursquare and dubbed the latest buzz-worthy mobile app (that's new media speak for application) in cyberspace.
While Facebook and Twitter revel in the minutia of teenagers' and babyboomers' lives - homework, yuck, here's pictures from a party you weren't invited to, doing mounds of laundry, broiling… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 28, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment
Time to Make the Column
Time to Make the Column
By Judy Bolton- Fasman
A couple of weeks ago Jeff Jacoby's column in the Boston Globe led off with the headline "Time to Make the Column." Although I rarely agree with Mr. Jacoby, on this one I felt his pain. He began his piece with a wry anecdote about the late William F. Buckley. (Isn't everything about William F. Buckley wry?) An interviewer once asked Buckley how he came up with topics for his column. Buckley cheekily said that when he was in a… Continue
By Judy Bolton- Fasman
A couple of weeks ago Jeff Jacoby's column in the Boston Globe led off with the headline "Time to Make the Column." Although I rarely agree with Mr. Jacoby, on this one I felt his pain. He began his piece with a wry anecdote about the late William F. Buckley. (Isn't everything about William F. Buckley wry?) An interviewer once asked Buckley how he came up with topics for his column. Buckley cheekily said that when he was in a… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 21, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments
A Poetic Lesson
A Poetic Lesson
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Last week, The America Library of Poetry was more than "fanning the flames of literacy" at our house. The library, sponsor of free poetry contests for kindergarteners through 12th graders, had finally picked this year's winners. Adam was not among them.
He had been so hopeful after he was notified this summer that he was still in the running for the grand prize. To confirm that he was a serious contender, the library wrote that his… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Last week, The America Library of Poetry was more than "fanning the flames of literacy" at our house. The library, sponsor of free poetry contests for kindergarteners through 12th graders, had finally picked this year's winners. Adam was not among them.
He had been so hopeful after he was notified this summer that he was still in the running for the grand prize. To confirm that he was a serious contender, the library wrote that his… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 14, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments
Girls Not Interrupted
Girls Not Interrupted
by Judy Bolton-Fasman
Here's one way to initiate the school year for some freshman girls.
It's an appalling welcome to high school that's planned out during sleepover parties, trips to the mall or dinners at the Cheesecake Factory. Anywhere that the reigning queen bees of Milburn High's senior class gather, incoming freshman girls are targeted through an annual "slut list" that is composed and then revised as carefully as a doctoral… Continue
by Judy Bolton-Fasman
Here's one way to initiate the school year for some freshman girls.
It's an appalling welcome to high school that's planned out during sleepover parties, trips to the mall or dinners at the Cheesecake Factory. Anywhere that the reigning queen bees of Milburn High's senior class gather, incoming freshman girls are targeted through an annual "slut list" that is composed and then revised as carefully as a doctoral… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments
A Letter to Sarai
A Letter to Sarai
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Dear Sarai,
There is a lot on your young shoulders. Twenty-one years old and you’re already an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
Thank you for defending Israel. Thank you to your mother for sending you out into the world to do this work for the Jewish state, and for Jews everywhere. Back home in Boston descriptions of what you and your unit do sound surreal. People will shake their heads in disbelief as… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Dear Sarai,
There is a lot on your young shoulders. Twenty-one years old and you’re already an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
Thank you for defending Israel. Thank you to your mother for sending you out into the world to do this work for the Jewish state, and for Jews everywhere. Back home in Boston descriptions of what you and your unit do sound surreal. People will shake their heads in disbelief as… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments
The Lovely Connections
The Lovely Connections
By Judy Bolton-Fasman
Six years ago I bought a novel called “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold. Early reviews glowed off the page for a book that was not yet a best seller. After I heard Ms. Sebold read from the novel at a local bookstore, I was sure that I could bond with the fourteen-year-old narrator watching her family from heaven. I was sure that “The Lovely Bones” would be the stuff of good literature, enabling me to transcend Susie’s… Continue
By Judy Bolton-Fasman
Six years ago I bought a novel called “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold. Early reviews glowed off the page for a book that was not yet a best seller. After I heard Ms. Sebold read from the novel at a local bookstore, I was sure that I could bond with the fourteen-year-old narrator watching her family from heaven. I was sure that “The Lovely Bones” would be the stuff of good literature, enabling me to transcend Susie’s… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments
The Return
The Return
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The prayer book I brought with me last month to Poland and Israel is inscribed to my father on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1932. The front page indicates that the siddur was published in Eretz Israel (Palestine). The short inscription reads: “To Harold Bolton upon his Bar Mitzvah. Best wishes and Congratulations.”
My father found his prayer book five decades later when he helped his own father move out of his home. At… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The prayer book I brought with me last month to Poland and Israel is inscribed to my father on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1932. The front page indicates that the siddur was published in Eretz Israel (Palestine). The short inscription reads: “To Harold Bolton upon his Bar Mitzvah. Best wishes and Congratulations.”
My father found his prayer book five decades later when he helped his own father move out of his home. At… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments
The Ladies Who Lunch
The Ladies Who Lunch
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The other day I did something that I haven’t done in almost forty years. After a couple of hours of shopping, I ate among the ladies who lunch. There I was, sitting not at a lunch counter in a diner, but rather in a bona fide girly lunch place in a corner of Bloomingdale’s. And I had packages too. I had broken a self-imposed six-month moratorium on shopping for myself. Shopping for my children or husband does not count as real… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The other day I did something that I haven’t done in almost forty years. After a couple of hours of shopping, I ate among the ladies who lunch. There I was, sitting not at a lunch counter in a diner, but rather in a bona fide girly lunch place in a corner of Bloomingdale’s. And I had packages too. I had broken a self-imposed six-month moratorium on shopping for myself. Shopping for my children or husband does not count as real… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments
Bad Mommies
Bad Mommies
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Shortly after Anna was born in 1994 I had my first brush with a bad mother turned downright evil. Susan Smith had drowned her two young sons by strapping them in their car seats and rolling her car into a lake. For nine days she stuck to her story that she was carjacked by a black man who drove away with her children.
In my post-partum haze, which included repeated attempts at breastfeeding Anna during her nightly colicky… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Shortly after Anna was born in 1994 I had my first brush with a bad mother turned downright evil. Susan Smith had drowned her two young sons by strapping them in their car seats and rolling her car into a lake. For nine days she stuck to her story that she was carjacked by a black man who drove away with her children.
In my post-partum haze, which included repeated attempts at breastfeeding Anna during her nightly colicky… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments
Richless
Richless
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The other day I went through my closet for the annual spring weeding. If I haven’t worn something in more than two years, it doesn’t make the cut. The day I cleaned my closet coincided with our lawn man’s spring clean up. I thought about how his bill for sprucing up the yard always includes a “dump charge.” How appropriate, I mused, as I sorted my clothing—dresses, skirts, and shirts. Then I further sorted those piles into give-away, Anna… Continue
Judy Bolton-Fasman
The other day I went through my closet for the annual spring weeding. If I haven’t worn something in more than two years, it doesn’t make the cut. The day I cleaned my closet coincided with our lawn man’s spring clean up. I thought about how his bill for sprucing up the yard always includes a “dump charge.” How appropriate, I mused, as I sorted my clothing—dresses, skirts, and shirts. Then I further sorted those piles into give-away, Anna… Continue
Added by Judy Bolton-Fasman on October 7, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments
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