Fiddler "off" the Roof. Jewish Mom, verbal Banterer living life off the ledge:)

Fiddler "off" the Roof. Jewish mom,living life off the edge.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Love in the Slow Lane

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 Since October 7, I’ve struggled to write about my insipid daily life as an aging woman navigating all the isms thrown my way. But I’ve real...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Smell the Rich

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  My kids were in Miami Beach for a week with their wee ones.  Since I live in a one-bedroom apartment, there wasn’t enough room for everyon...
Monday, August 19, 2024

La Dolce Vita

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Roberto is a seventy-something Casanova type, straight out of central casting.  His copious head of hair belies his years, and the pomade he...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Midlife Horror

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  Another weekend and another stupendous offer to set this old lady up. There’s a couple who live in my building. They married two years ago...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

I'm Drowning and I Can't Get Out:)

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 The older I get, the deeper the dating pool available to me. It's so immersive that one can drown in it, either by diving headfirst int...
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Monday, April 18, 2022

Circle of Life

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There are a few elderly Hungarian women in my building. A few of them still wear the fatalistic numbers seared into their flesh by insatiabl...

Don't Ride with Me

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  Once upon a time in a world before Instagram, there lived a melancholy girl in pre-gentrified Brooklyn; a halcyon place where chains were ...

Pass Over

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      As everyone knows by now, my descent to the promised land of Miami is never uneventful. I'm still the middle seat buffer between m...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Rich Man, Poor Mom

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  I’ve always hated rich people. Yeh, “Hate” is a strong word, but what I felt was more than envy or jealousy. I never possessed green eyes ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

A Convenient Encounter

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Last night at around ten pm, I was driving home from my life-altering, weekly, Wednesday Torah Class and noticed something very unusual.  Mi...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Crushed

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His name was Chaim Dov Finkelstein.  We went to the same bungalow colony, when I was five and a half and he was five and I was madly and de...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

How Old Am I? NOT

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I recently celebrated a birthday.   Yes, I say “celebrated” because previously it was more like lamented, ignored, cried, went postal o...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Full Mooning (#7,777 of why I don't date anymore:)

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Yesterday was “Tu B’av”. In ancient Jewish Times, this was the night that women, wearing white, danced under the full moon (since there was...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Never Say "Never Again" (until the next time:)

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As many of you might glean from my multitude of posts regarding the dating dance and the many extracurricular games that ensue past the fir...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Dancing With The Slobs:)

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I, recently, moved to the promised land where all old Jews go to marinate; Miami Beach. Unfortunately, I am nowhere near retirement, nor ea...
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