Her First Mouse
It happened in the country. Somewhere peaceful. That there was a kitten. This kitten lived with a family like most families. That is to say, old fashioned. What really happened on the day kitty came home with a mouse clenched firmly and quite dead, between her jaws? They praised her. Mother mentioned it to father.…
Inflation
Inflation Its Structure and Politics By Philip EdenWritten 1980First EditionCopyright © 2013 Marilyn JacklerAll rights reserved.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0Unported LicenseTo view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/2.5/or send a letter to:Creative Commons171 Second Street, Suite 300San Francisco, California 94105 USA Contents Chapter 1 History 1. Prices: Historical Picture…
Stubbytail 2 Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Johannes Vermeer’s First Commission These days, if you do anything extraordinary, someone is likely to catch it on video and within seconds you can become the flavor of the week to a whole bunch of mobile phone holders all around the world. As it turns out, two people caught Johannes in flight on…
Stubbytail 2 Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Johannes Draws in Stubbytail’s Notebook Johannes picked up a handful of skipping stones, put them in his pocket, and followed the arrow. The swinging bridge was long, but looked safe enough. He took the wooden ramp up to the highest point, where the span began. The bridge curved slightly downwards; at the midpoint…
Stubbytail II Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Things Go Smoothly for Johannes Johannes sat in the cuddle corner of the Animal Shelter with Stubbytail in his arms and her head nestled into the crook of his elbow. He considered his options. Perhaps Dr. Cohen could help him. He would need a place to stay. He could sketch portraits with the…
Stubbytail II Chapter 6 and 7
Chapter 6 Background Dr. Cohen Dr. Cohen was a bit of an oddball, but an oddball with an overflowing heart and strong convictions. If you aren’t aware, the Cohanim (plural for Cohen in transliterated Hebrew) were priests and judges of the Israelites from about 3,500 to 2000 years ago. From Chabad.org All Kohanim can (theoretically) trace…
Stubbytail II Chapter 4 and 5
Chapter 4 Johannes Draws Stubbytail in the Public Garden and Makes his own Time Travel Correction Johannes had just started sketching Stubbytail with charcoal when he noticed the open notebook by her and picked it up. The pages were much smoother than any he had ever seen, and this little book held many pages, and they were…
Stubbytail II Chapter 1-3
Chapter 1 Johannes Vermeer’s Point of View of Stubbytail in Utrecht As you may recall, later on the night of the book signing, there was a storm and flooding and Stubbytail disappeared for a couple of hours along with Stonewall’s backpack. As it turns out Stubbytail had gone time traveling and materialized on the modeling platform…
My Road To Israel
My grandparents immigrated from Russia and Poland to the New York around 1900. My parents met at Brooklyn College; started their family on the East Coast, and moved to Albany, California in 1945, as my father was offered a job in San Francisco. I was born in 1946, and raised in Berkeley, California, where I…
Stubbytail
Contents Part I Stubbytail and “THE ONLY OTHER CAT IN THE VICINITY”Part II How Artist’s Drawing Would Eventually be Auctioned Off at Christie’s for an Exorbitant Sum Part 1 Chapter 1 How Stubbytail Found Out He Had A Stubby Tail and Phantom Tail Syndrome Stubbytail was born with only a stub of a tail and…
Biblical Names: Yael and Judith
There are two similar Biblical stories. The Book of Judges (4:17-22 and 5:24-31), tells of Yael, a Kenite woman, who kills Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army, by driving a tent peg through his skull while he is sleeping. Sisera is the leader of the Canaanite army under King Jabin around 1200 BC in the area…
The Ashkelon Canaanite Fortress and City Gate
The Canaanite City Gate is the most ancient arched gate in the world. It consists of an arched corridor with arched openings on both ends. The gate was constructed in approximately 1850 BCE as part of the city’s fortification system, and is built mostly of mud bricks with some calcareous limestone. It is 15 meters…
Ancient Site for Manufacture of Techelet Dye Discovered in Shikmona Haifa Area
In 1999, Prof. Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa Zinman Institute of Archaeology, and a research student of hers, Golan Shalvi, examined pitchers and pottery fragments from the earlier archeological excavation (1963 to 1977) of ancient Shikmona by archaeologist Dr. Yosef Elgavish on behalf of the Haifa Municipality’s museums department, revealing that the ancient Shikmona…
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