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Exodus 9: Provisions
The flies and gnats were harbingers of the plagues to come. Moses warns Pharaoh, then delivers a severe plague upon the livestock of the Egyptians. Horses, donkeys, camels, herds and flocks die in the fields while the animals of the Israelites survive. One of my chickens died this fall and I was very sad; I…
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Exodus 8: Warning
God tells Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites leave or He will send a plague of frogs. Pharaoh refuses and God sends frogs. They are everywhere. Frogs get into in people’s homes, bedrooms and kitchens. The magicians also make frogs appear by their secret arts. Pharaoh pleads with Moses…
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Elementary
During my semiannual evening visit to my daughter’s classroom, her 2nd grade teacher posted the following list under “Classroom Management.” Normally, I see a list of simple behaviors like: keep your hands to yourself, or put away the art supplies. This time, on the eve of Ivy’s eighth birthday, I found the teacher’s PowerPoint slide…
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Know & be Known
Now that I have been published for a minute, someone has invited me to teach a group of seniors about writing memoirs. This blog notwithstanding, I’ve never published one, but I have read a ton of them. To get your memoir published these days, you have to have one of three things; already be famous,…
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Newsies Now
My daughter’s theater aspirations has put me on a broadway musical journey these last few weeks. Last night, we watched the filmed stage version of Newsies from 2017, not the 1992 Christian Bale version. Le sigh! I remembered singing and dancing, but I forgot about the proletariat struggle. If you are foggy on the story…
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Godspell
Vulture published an article last week interviewing Victor Garber, the actor who played Jesus in both the Toronto stage play and the Hollywood production of Godspell in the early 1970s. Apparently the stage cast included Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner, several of the famous funny people that I grew up watching…
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Exodus 6: Inheritance
After Moses’s PTO request to leave Egypt for a religious retreat with the Israelites was denied and punished, Moses complains to God that he has failed to deliver his people. God goes over the history, saying he identifies as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but didn’t give them his “I Am” name before.…
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Popular
There’s a phenomenon in culture where people try to associate themselves others of higher social status. It’s with called clout chasing or social climbing. Nobody says that is what they’re doing, but it is what some folks do to get attention and promote themselves. These days, popular people online are called influencers and if you…
