college sits on the shelf

i grew up surrounded by books about Bob Dylan or Kabbalah or physics or Sir Isaac Newton or chess plays by Bobby Fisher. What about Dad’s Hasselblad or the Talmud? I grew up in Vermont, snowed in with three channels. I read almost every book on my mother’s fiction shelves (I read ‘fear of flying’…

No Christmas & Chanukah mixing this year…instead

it will be Thanksgiving & Chanukah with a splash of football. So how does one decorate? Instead of blue & white Chanukah candles, it will be red, orange, yellow & brown candles.  I suppose I should be grateful I found some.