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Tags: Family Life
And so comes to an end the summer of 2010. Ordinarily, this type of closing statement would come at the end, but here it serves as a starting point for my memories of the summer that was.
Before getting too far, I should really explain that our summers actually begin sometime in June, as the kids' school blasts us with rapid-fire obligations, uh... invitations, to attend various school functions. There was the Good Boy's General Studies play, then the Sweet Sweetheart's Hebrew play, then the Good Boy's Hebrew play, and then the Sweet Sweetheart's General Studies play. They had multiple...
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Tags: Blast from the Past
The time is twenty-eight years ago and the place is the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York. One of my best friends, Jonathan and I escape the hot, humid haze and the inevitable boredom of summertime in Brooklyn and the Bronx, respectively. We're dressed in worn jeans, cowboy boots, and Grateful Dead concert t-shirts featuring dancing skeletons and red roses. Not unlike those skeletons, we're two skinny, scrappy teens looking for adventure, good times, and maybe just a little cash.
Jonathan is scheduled to work at a concession in a popular bungalow colony called Clearview, and I'm set to be the...
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Tags: Family
It's another amazingly beautiful day in Southern California and I'm driving away from the children's school at about 7:45am. Just me and the Good Boy. It's a big day for him -- he's now nine years old!
We just dropped off the Sweet Sweetheart, backpack in tow, and as the birthday boy, he gets the day off to celebrate and be adored. By lunch time we'll be back at the school to pick up his sister, but for right now he's the Birthday King and he reigns supreme.
His Birthday Highness stretches in the backseat of my SUV and smiles with...
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Tags: Stuff
It's two days before Passover 2010 and I take a mental inventory of what more is needed for the breadless week ahead. Got more matza than we can eat in a week? Check. Got peanut butter? Check. Got jelly? Check. Got cream cheese? Check. Got six-thousand dead bees in a shopping bag? Check. Ummm... Yeah, really.
I'm standing at the window of the second story in our house with a window blinds repairman. As he repairs the middle blind with the broken wand connector, I stare out the window for a moment and notice something odd: Small particles of some sort...
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Tags: Me, Me, Me
I was having a discussion with my friend Rubes last week. We know each other since we were teenagers and have stayed in touch all these years. Rubes and his family wound up in Boca. I wound up across the country, in L.A.
"Yo, wazzup??" I have to smile at that expression. When I hear it, I know that I'm about to be instantly transported out of my corporate, suburban, fatherly existence into a much more carefree time of my life.
"Hey Rubes, everything's good. What are you up to, dude?" Even in our mid-forties, we're still dudes... At least in our...
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Double Triangle is my personal blog and is mostly about family life in the Los Angeles area. It also serves to record some of my thoughts in a format that can be easily conveyed to my children, other members of my family and friends, as well as to anyone who cares to read it.
Double Triangle also includes reviews of Kosher and Jewish-Interest restaurants.
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