About Angela Himsel

"I just figured out how to put my documents into individual folders on the computer," I confess to my friend S.  "I know there’s so much you can do on the computer -powerpoint and downloading songs from itunes – but … Read More

Wear black.  A little purple or green is okay, too.  But just a little.   As a joke, I’ve heeded Rodney’s sarcastic advice, and I’m clad in black pants, a lavender shirt and black vest. "I’ve never seen you wear … Read More

There’s a big hole in my bathroom ceiling.  The carpenter punched through it to determine whether the beams can support my husband’s latest building project – a little terrace.     I was never a builder – I was more of … Read More

The mashgiach, (the kosher supervisor), and the Chabad rabbi were returning to Hanoi from a farm in the countryside where they’d bought chickens which they would kill for the Passover Seder meal. They were stopped by members of the Vietnamese … Read More

It was 1967 and Wendl was at the Drive-In with her boyfriend, watching a movie called The Bible. At each scene, she told her boyfriend what would happen: Cain would kill Abel, Noah would escape the flood. Her boyfriend was … Read More

My watchband has changed from a lovely pink to an at-best beige/brown, the results of oxidation and, um, time. So Sunday afternoon finds me heading down Columbus Avenue, coincidentally and appropriately the first day of Daylight-Saving Time, on my way … Read More