Isaac knew no boundaries

I recently received some photographs from 1997. They'd been sitting in my father's files for 24 years. This takes me back... Although I received my Ph.D. in particle physics in 1996, I didn't formally graduate from Columbia University until 1997. For the occasion, my mother Beatrice and her husband Bob flew from California to attend the ceremony.…

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60th birthday – the invitation

I invite my friends (new and old, near and far) to my 60th birthday party. Date: Saturday, December 7, 2019 Time: 6PM - 11PM Location: This is a public blog post, so I'll send the address separately. It's the same place as my 40th and 50th birthday parties, and a few Yule celebrations. The event: A professionally-published…

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A Witch Does Passover – 2019

This was the first year since 1995 that I did not cook the Passover seder. The reason was that I'm still recovering (after four months!) from a medical problem I had just before Christmas 2018. I will get better, hopefully within another month, but I was not in position to do my usual annual shopping and schlepping…

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A Witch Does Passover – 2017, part 2

After most of the day, I've finally recovered from last night's Passover seder. I'm glad it's my practice to take the day off following the seder. I didn't get to sleep until about 3AM this morning, and the food coma lasted into this afternoon. It was a small seder, only five people. Even so, the discussion was…

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