Gently Through This Broken Sky (K/R Fic)

...summary should be and she said: “It’s a story about how a plane crash brings people together (she doesn’t write for Hallmark, I swear), like a bat mitzvah, but less fun – with less dancing and relatives and food and more snow and possible death and crash landings.”  Chapter 1 of ? who the hell knows by the...

Back in the spring I was assigned to give the drash at the havurah service at the beginning of December. I wrote it in my calendar but didn't think about it much. Today the service coordinator emailed me. She wants to hand out the assignments to the Torah readers and she wanted to know what I wanted to talk about so we could read that part of the parsha. It's my Bat Mitzvah parsha.

Gently Through This Broken Sky (K/R Fic)

...summary should be and she said: “It’s a story about how a plane crash brings people together (she doesn’t write for Hallmark, I swear), like a bat mitzvah, but less fun – with less dancing and relatives and food and more snow and possible death and crash landings.”  Chapter 1 of ? who the hell knows by the...

Gently Through This Broken Sky (K/R Fic)

... should be and she said: “It’s a story about how a plane crash brings people together (she doesn’t write for Hallmark, I swear), like a bat mitzvah, but less fun – with less dancing and relatives and food and more snow and possible death and crash landings.”  Timeframe:  Right after the MTV Movie Awards 2009...

How the Rich Get Richer

... CEO of bulletproof vest maker DHB, it’s risen 13,233%. AT THE $10 MILLION bat mitzvah party Brooks threw his daughter last year, guests got $1,000 gift bags and listened..., Stevie Nicks, and 50 Cent—who reportedly sang, “Go shorty, it’s your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.” FOR PERFORMING IN the Live 8 concerts to “make poverty history,” musicians each got ...

..., the soldier boys are fine, the teenage son is fine, the youngest is looking into schools for next year (junior high!) and we are in the throes of Bat Mitzvah planning. (How did she grow up so much when I wasn't looking?) "Julie and Julia" finally opened here two weeks ago and we went out to see ...

you can't keep up with this one.

... keeps up images. I remember my thirteenth birthday. A ton of my friends were having Bat Mitzvahs, and I well, wasn’t. So my parents planned this huge surprise party for me..., and all these elitists were there. It made me feel important, anyway. Needless to say, none of my friend’s Bat Mitzvah’s looked half as expensive.”   That's interesting. What about your looks? Like them? Don't? What's up on...

What I'd Do With #20... Runaways, Volume 3, #25-36! (1/2)

... But time travel's weird, so if you don't fix it now, you could still mess things up for me. So help me if you make me have 80s hair at my bat mitzvah, I'll never forgive you. The pictures are bad enough as it is." She then looks off to the side and swears. "This wasn't supposed to happen. I have to go....

tonight's tv

... that he never deliberately caused anyone's death, and that sometimes he even gave people a few years so they could do things like attend their granddaughter's bat mitzvah. I actually felt pretty bad for him when his girlfriend insisted on dying. 4. Hurray for poker hustler!Sam. I loved, loved, loved that he ...

The 2009 Austin Jewish Book Fair starts this weekend!

... Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible Plotz thought he knew the Bible until he picked one up at a cousin's bat mitzvah and become engrossed by an entirely unfamiliar tale. To remedy his ignorance he embarked on a year-long Slate project, "Blogging the Bible." While priests and ...