Happy Chanukkah, Leopold and Lena

Back a long time ago, I’m not sure when, I asked my late paternal grandmother, Mal, what her ethnicity was. I don’t know why I asked her this since  I knew the answer and had talked to her at length many times about her branch(es) of the family tree . But I remember her that day answering briskly and bluntly: [...]

WITH

You know how over the last few years I’ve written a couple entries on “restaveks” — which are the child laborers/borderline slaves in Haiti?  Restavek means “stay with”.  The parents of these kids have such limited means they send the kids to other people’s homes to work for subsistence, basically, and the kids stay with the [...]

Horrible Kids’ Gift Ideas

Holiday Free-For-All Month continues here at OPF.  (I’m trying it out lol.)  I have been surfing Amazon.com and other sites for gifts for my nieces and nephews  (and myself, heh.)  I’ve also, for fun, gone on some tangents searching for horrible things to get kids, any kids, this holiday season. CREEPY CUDDLERS ZOMBIE PLUSH FIGURE: “Death Mittens”.  [...]

Disney Princesses : An Epilogue

So, my oldest niece, Miss SMJ, took down her old Disney Princess poster the other day. The one I gave her four or five years ago. This was a symbolic move, really, one representing a transition in taste that had already occured. I can’t remember the last time the girl mentioned wanting any Disney Princess gear. Out [...]

Holiday Free For All Month

December is Holiday Free For All Month at One Page For. Some musings, some charity notices, some this-and-thats, and what have yous. To start, I want to invite all of you revellers and readers to sojourn over to the 500 Charities list  (see tab above) and see if there’s anyone on there to whom you’d [...]