state of the meerkat

The State of the Meerkat: Out of the Fire and Onto the Chafing Dish

This has been a busy week.  When last we saw our intrepid meerkat, she was heading in to meet with the oncology specialist, who had all of her lab work and test results, and was ready to sit down and discuss What Next.  That was Monday. I’ll spare you the hour and a half, complete […]

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“You will cast all their sins into the depths of the [metaphorical] sea.”

This is the beginning of the Days of Repentance in the Jewish tradition, starting today with Rosh Hashanah (Yom Ha-Zikkaron) and ending ten days from now with Yom Kippur. I am mostly, as I often say, a forgetting-to-practice Jew. But there are a few traditions I hold fast to, and the High Holy Days are

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As we used to say on Livejournal, 3 things makes a post.

Well, that was special. I just saw someone on Facebook, who probably thinks of themselves as a perfectly decent and good Christian,  dismiss all of Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, among others, as ‘just tribal laws.’ Honey, it’s ALL just ‘tribal laws.’ You’re just prioritizing your tribe over everyone else’s, and the name for that ain’t

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Paying the piper (and also the electric bill and the vet’s bill, and….)

Since I got scolded for not shilling myself enough (ugh), I’m gonna do this all-promo post fast, and you can do with it as you will, after, ok? 1. If you’re not signed up for the Gilman Quarterly yet, you aren’t going to have a chance to win one of three limited edition West Winds’

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