The world’s best challah

by | Sep 22, 2011 | Food

One of the smells which instantly returns me to my childhood is fresh baked challah. I salivate just thinking about the aroma in my home those cold winter mornings when mom would say, “Challah day”. It was a tradition. Every snow day, we’d clear out the kitchen and...

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain

by | Sep 20, 2011 | Books, Films, Plays, Random Musings

Erin Morgenstern’s beautifully written book The Night Circus is a mesmerizing read which forces the audience to question… everything. Set against the backdrop of a magical circus with the major theme of illusion contorting through the plot and characters, it...

“Let it Go” Cowboy Mouth and The Sound of Music

by | Sep 19, 2011 | Films, Music, Random Musings

One of my favorite little known songs is Cowboy Mouth’s “Jenny Says”. It repeats “let it go” over and over and over. And you know what they say about repetition… it’s a common literary device used to emphasize. Like a primitive religious chant, it reminds the...

In Search of… a catch phrase

by | Sep 17, 2011 | Random Musings, Writing

I’m fairly new to the whole blogging experience; however, I’m starting to think I should have a blog catch phrase…something to repeatedly end each blog. Because, frankly, after a week, my blogs have absolutely no consistency of topic. So….I am in search of a...