About Angela Himsel
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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The ladies’ room in the coffee shop on Broadway is still occupied, so when a middle-aged man and then a young boy exit the men’s room, I bravely decide to cross into male territory and use the facilities. When I … Read More
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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
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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
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As Purim approaches, my thoughts turn to the various themes in the book of Esther: the hiddenness of God in our lives, the masks we wear, how we hide from God and God hides from us, and how life … Read More