Abacaxi Mamão

When I heard the shofar in shul on Rosh Hashanah, the broken notes spoke to me in a deep, visceral way. It sounded like a simple instrument that was trumpeting, loudly, the brokenness of the worl...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-brokenness-of-world.html

Two years ago, I celebrated Pesach (Passover) as what felt like literal redemption from death by Covid. I felt deep, visceral gratitude. I felt...saved. There was a sweetness in my mouth and it w...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2022/04/my-third-pandemic-pesach.html

I was walking home alone in the neighborhood tonight. It was a dark and stormy night. (Literally.) A man walking maybe two feet in front of me turns and says, "Young lady..." and I prepare to do...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2022/03/of-men-and-cardboard.html

One of the ways that I'm handling the stressful hellscape that is Omicron in NYC in late December 2021 is by watching terrible Christmas movies on Netflix. (It's really brutal out there. People...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-movies-on-netflix.html

There, I said it. Go ahead, call me a complainer. I freely admit it: I am a complainer. I do not force myself to "only see the positive" or "look on the bright side of life" (always or ever, re...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2021/06/dating-is-terrible.html

This , too, is part of the carceral state. (Google it if you don't know what that is. That's what we here in these United States live in. If you don't think so, I think you can thank your white...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-carceral-state.html

Since I last posted in August, my professional life has changed dramatically. I am no longer a full-time day school teacher. I now work half-time as an office manager in Midtown Manhattan, as wel...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/11/midtown-manhattan-coffee-reviews-part-1.html

Scene: Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, 12:00 pm today. A man with a basket of groceries dodges and weaves through the line to beat all of the women with carts and children who are making their way ...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-urban-metaphor-forsomething.html

This comes up every year or almost every year. I was taught that it has to be two items on which two different brachot are made. This is how it is currently taught and has been taught for a...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/03/two-different-brachot-or-two-portions.html

In light of the fact that someone recently asked me what I believe, here are some of the things that I believe today (in no particular order), on March 3, 2019: That God speaks to me through the...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-do-i-believe.html

After, ahem, 20 (?) months of complete radio silence, you may have noticed that I am back! Why? For awhile now, I have been feeling the need for a creative outlet other than long Facebook post...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/02/hello-world.html

Draft written and saved in July 2009. Re-discovered in February 2019. Published after some light editing. I cried (at least) three times at the Kolech conference today and I don't think I've c...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/02/why-i-cried-at-summer-2009-kolech.html

Written 10/15/2009. Rediscovered 2/21/2019 when I remembered that I had a blog and decided to go back and clean up some of the drafts that have just been sitting here, for all this time, while ...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-life-in-talmud-torah-with-emphasis.html

Draft written 11/30/2011 about an event that took place earlier that month. Rediscovered in 2019. I still remember this incident well! I think I saved it as a draft in 2011 instead of publishin...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/02/are-you-rabbis-daughter-and-halakhic.html

Hey, it's February 2019, and I see that I never published this draft from June 2017! Here it is, at long last. The end of the coxsackie story! However, as DAY 6, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, progressed ...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2019/02/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-adults.html

Here is Part 1 . Here is Part 2 . Here is Part 3 . Now you're up to speed! On DAY 5, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, I woke up suddenly feeling like my throat hurt marginally less. I was still ge...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2017/06/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-adults.html

Here is Part 1 . Here is Part 2 . I made a post-hoc judgment call and decided that DAY 1 of coxsackie/HFMD was on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. (That's described at the end of Part 2 .) That's when...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2017/01/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-adults_3.html

First read Part 1 here , if you haven't already. On MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 26, I felt a little hot, especially in my face, and my hands felt a little itchy, but I thought I was just imagining ...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2017/01/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-adults.html

Happy 2017! I contracted Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (hereafter HFDM, caused by coxsackie virus) from my toddler niece (23 months old, hereafter referred to as "N," for niece) last week. I d...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2017/01/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-caused-by.html

Thank you to all of the daughters, sisters, aunts, mothers, and grandmothers who fought so hard for our right to vote! 99 years ago today, on November 6, 1917 , all of the women of New York Sta...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2016/11/gratitude.html

THE INCIDENT   I saw this: Two swastikas on a Bernie 2016 bumper sticker at Bobst Library, around 4:20 pm, 12/29/15 at NYU 's Bobst Library at around 4:20 pm on Tuesday afternoon, Decem...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2015/12/swastikas-at-nyu.html

Yesterday, I went to a friend's naturalization ceremony, which was lovely and moving. I felt so proud to be an American, and so dismayed that the process of becoming a citizen of the State of...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2015/05/naturalization.html

Growing up in Boston, I was always anti-New York. That's just how it is. New York thinks it's the top banana, or, rather, the ONLY banana. I knew better. Other lovely cities abound. So, even thou...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2015/05/becoming-new-yorker.html

I am trying to write this from not-my-computer, but rather a mobile device, so we'll see whether it works or not. I've actually been missing blogging a lot. It feels very 2005 to me, but I miss t...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2015/05/financial-realities-and-non-realities.html

I haven't blogged in forever, but maybe it's time to start again. Okay, maybe that's overly ambitious. Maybe it's time to post just one thought. It's been awhile! Yes to this . Some parts may n...

https://abacaximamao.blogspot.com/2013/10/dating-tips-for-feminist-man.html