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okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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this past august noam celebrated his 10th birthday in style at FDR skatepark. the weather was perfect and everyone had a blast. the only hangup was that noam’s name was misspelled on the cake :- (

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I’ll write more later, but here are some photos of Keith + Mendi Obadike’s visit to the IMA program yesterday. I was pretty much geeking out the entire time. They presented for about an hour or so and then checked out the IMAterial show that’s happening in the Black Box. There, they [...]

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Here are some photos from my trip to San Francisco:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Now that my bubbie, my grandmother, is ill, my mother has to become her advocate, more than ever.  She feels a significant responsibility in this regard because my bubbie’s other children are out of the picture.
Her son abandoned his wife and four children a long time ago.  His children, now grown and with kids of [...]

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