Category: Family & Friends
19 October, 2008 (20:28) | Family & Friends, Humour, Life | No comments
If you need a good laugh, try reading through these children’s science exam answers : Q: Name the four seasons. A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink. A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, [...]
17 September, 2008 (19:52) | Family & Friends, Food, Recipes | 1 comment
OOOh Yum yum. Here’s how I did them. [tag]Recipe[/tag] 5 [tag]fresh figs[/tag] about two ounces brandy 1 stick cinnamon a tsp of allspice about a tsp and a half of cloves about a tbsp of fresh sliced ginger about 1 ounce of sugar free (splenda sweetened) almond liqueur flavoring (made by Oscar(brand name)) stir all, [...]
8 August, 2008 (09:23) | Art, Family & Friends, Life, Music, Piano, Teaching Art, Teaching Music | 1 comment
You have probably noticed the change in name of my website. This was done to facilitate my being found by searchers, as Google recognizes ‘Diane Oser’, but not my Hebrew name [tag]‘Malcha’[/tag]. Ah well, a rose by any other name… as the saying goes. The heat is getting the better of me, rather enervating I [...]
10 July, 2008 (18:03) | Family & Friends, Life | 1 comment
[tag]Happy ‘Puppy Day’[/tag] to Diane and Doug! She’s absolutely beautiful – black lab with something brindle cross.No name chosen yet. We have to get to know her for a few days, and her us. We are entertaining [tag]CHEWYbaka[/tag], [tag]r2D2[/tag], [tag]Dayo[/tag], (anagram Yoda), [tag]Brin[/tag] (for brindle) and welcoming any suggestions from our friends and well wishers! [...]
4 July, 2008 (22:00) | Family & Friends, Humour, Music, Paths, Teaching Music | 2 comments
A friend of mine has a dog. A great dog, very intelligent. Nice to people. It turns out maybe a bit too smart. Like maybe annoyingly clever. Jessie stays in his crate when his master (hahahah chortle guffaw) has to be away. Last week, Jessie managed to snout his way through the bars of his [...]
27 May, 2008 (20:30) | Art, Family & Friends, Life, Music, Painting, Piano, Teaching Art, Teaching Music | No comments
Sorry I haven’t written anything lately. Life has been extremely hectic, which is sometimes good, and sometimes not. I attempted to translate a web site for someone in Quebec, and unfortunately I failed. Both at accomplishing it at the speed he needed, and also because my bilingualism is not up to snuff. It hurt, and [...]
14 April, 2008 (01:09) | Family & Friends, Life, Paths | 2 comments
I thought I’d share some thoughts on a subject near and worrisome to me. How many of you have experienced an [tag]aging [/tag]parent or close [tag]family[/tag] member, being rude, or acting thoughtlessly, in their interactions with others, in particular offspring, but not limited to that? I’ve heard statements such as, ‘I’m old so I can [...]
5 March, 2008 (21:04) | Family & Friends, Life, Miscellaneous, Music, Teaching Music | 6 comments
I have just put this [tag]website[/tag] together for my wife Diane ([tag]Malcha[/tag] is an old family nickname for her – in [tag]Yiddish[/tag] it means Queen) and I hope she will use it to explore herself, the world and the [tag]Sound Visions Project[/tag] she has been working on for several years. I’ll leave it for her [...]
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