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I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.
What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.
Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?
Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.
Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.
We really don't maximize our usage of the space on Blu Ray discs like you got fuckin gigabytes of space on that thing and yet people put less bonus features on them than they put on dvds that had like 4 gigs of space. Where are my bonus features. Why is your menu so boring. Give me more. Maximize it.
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Jane Yolen was a Jewish-American childrenâs author, poet, and young adult novelist. Yolen wrote more than 400 books for children and adults,
If you didnât become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel nove
If you didnât become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel novella âThe Devilâs Arithmetic,â itâs likely you will once you become a parent, reading one of her many, many, many books for kids. My young boys are especially partial to her âHow Do Dinosaurs?â series with its captivating, realistic dinosaur illustrations and snappy, funny text (and yes, thereâs a Hanukkah âHow Do Dinosaursâ book).
The prolific childrenâs book author, who was the recipient of multiple childrenâs book awards and six honorary doctorates, passed away this week at age 87. She was just about to release her 450th book. âMonsters of Fife: Terror Birdsâ will come out posthumously on July 14.
Yolen wasnât raised particularly Jewish, and her exposure to religion was mostly at relativesâ homes, she recounted in a piece for the Jewish Book Council. As a teen, she did become fascinated with Jewish texts and traditions, getting confirmed at her local Reform synagogue; she was one of the first girls to read from the Torah on the bimah at that temple. And she minored in religious studies at Smith College.
But it took a while for Judaism to become part of her childrenâs book-writing career. In fact, she was two decades into her career when she got ânoodgedâ into writing Jewish tales.
It all happened in the 1980s, she wrote in her essay for the Jewish Book Council: âOne of my ediÂtors, who hapÂpened to be a rabbiâs wife, asked me why I had nevÂer writÂten a JewÂish book. And I had to think long and hard about that. And she noodged. Boy! Was she an expert noodge. The result was âThe Devilâs ArithÂmetic.â And then the JewÂish stoÂries began to tumÂble out.â
The books that came tumbling out were as gripping and wonderful and magical as the rest of her oeuvre.
There came magical stories about Jews and dragons and golems (co-written with her son, Adam Stemple).
She published illustrated books about Miriam and other biblical women (and even the childrenâs book adaptation of the famous âPrince of Egyptâ).
She came up with her own twist on the tales of the Wise Men of Chelm.
She perhaps became most known for her three young adult tomes that tackle the Holocaust in novel ways. She wrote the âSleeping Beautyâ inspired âBriar Roseâ and the âHansel and Gretelâ-esque âMapping the Bones.â And of course, she penned the Nebula Prize Winning âThe Devilâs Arithmetic,â about a Jewish teen who finds herself transported to 1942 Poland, which continues to be taught in schools to this very day, even as one Texas school district pulled it out of the curriculum for AI-detected âDEI content.â The book was famously turned into a 1999 film starring Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman and Mimi Rogers.
Yolen also wrote books about Jewish holidays: âMilk and Honey,â and the lovely âJewish Tale Feastsâ (with her daughter, author Heidi Stemple), a book that my Jewish food-loving family adores.
Heidi, Adam and their brother Jason were all by their motherâs side when she âpassed gently with no pain or stress,â Heidi shared on Instagram. Adam was playing his music while Heidi read from her motherâs book âOwl Moon.â
âAs you all probably know, she had one of the most brilliant creative minds of our time,â Heidi wrote of her mother. âShe has mentored, inspired and nurtured so many authors and illustrators through her words both on the page and off. But, beyond that, she was our mother and grandmother.â
May Jane Yolenâs memory be for a blessing; her books will certainly remain part of our lives for a long, long time.
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