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My Mother’s Warfare Against Aesthetics
My mother was a fierce, stubborn, hard-working woman. She was also a woman who cared about her appearance and deeply internalized the aesthetic pressures on women.
Cooking lessons
Reflections on cooking, life lessons and mothers and daughters.
Comforting Mothers Without Mothers
\”My childhood skidded to a stop on a Tuesday afternoon in the middle of my 15th year, with my mother\’s first mammogram results,\” writes Hope Edelman in her moving new book, \”Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become\” (Harper Collins). For Edelman, her mother\’s illness and subsequent death from cancer two years later in 1981 were the beginning of a journey of loss, self-exploration and eventual emotional redemption that has spanned nearly a quarter-century and spawned three well-received books on the subject.
The Matchmakers
My friend, Clark, is a 38-year-old entertainment executive who enjoys the services of two full-time matchmakers.
\”They\’re always on the lookout for someone special for me. They call it scoping for ladies,\” he said with a laugh. And who wouldn\’t be doing the same? Clark is intelligent, witty and handsome. I, for one, find it remarkable he\’s still unattached.
Hollywood Mitzvahs
When one person helps another person, it\’s a mitzvah. When 1,500 people from 30 different organizations join together to help out in over 50 volunteering projects, it\’s Temple Israel of Hollywood\’s (TIOH) Mitzvah Day.