Tikkun Olam

So here's another thing that has nothing to do with the price of noodles, but is all about noodles: check out the latest KCC , Kosher Cooking Carnival , at MiriYummy's -how apropos. And did I ever send you a notice of the latest Havel Havalim? Probably not, as I was pre-occupied with...everything else going on in my life.  So here it is, HH #306 , at Frume Sarah's. Ok. Yatzati li'dei hovah (Google it.).  I can go to sleep now. (this is not a real post.  if you want to read a real post, scroll down to the previous one.  that's a real post.)

The latest and greatest Haveil Havalim (the Jewish Blog Carnival) is up and running at Esser Agoroth , so in order to get your two cents worth, be there or be square ! (One of these days I'll have the time and the courage to try my hand at hosting; right now with our unstable living situation it is not the right time...).

Yes, that famous Jewish Blog Carnival, Haveil Havalim #293 the-post-Thanksgiving-pre-Chanukah Edition is now up and running at Homeshuling . Go, read it.  After all, what else have you got to do? (Um, me? All I have to do is write up my copious notes for my preschool kids' developmental milestones for their portfolios and  read and organize my staff meeting notes and my curricula for the next two weeks. Think I'll read Haveil Havalim...)

As Jack put it (heck, might as well link him too--he's the current HH Meister ), the "longest running Jewish Blog Carnival," Haveil Havalim (Vanity of Vanities) #292 - is up and running at To Kiss a Mezuzah .  Even though this time, yours truly is not there, there are lots of good bloggers whose posts are , so go, have a good read!

...To Haveil Havalim #288, which was up and running almost a week ago (sigh; this is getting to be a habit, my forgetting things) at Isramom's blog . Well, you know what they say.  Shoulda, woulda, coulda. . . Maybe I'll be able to blog a little more frequently after parent/teacher conferences.  Nah. Just kidding.  (But I miss it...)

The latest Haveil Havallim, #285, entitled " Back to the Beginning "--a very apt title, as we just finished the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah and are starting all over again with Breisheet (Genesis)--is now up and running at Frume Sarah's. (Was that a long, run-on sentence or what? )

Maybe it's because, especially right after Yom Kippur (it was a relatively easy fast, thank G-d), I'm still very hungry--that I think Chaviva's Haveil Havalim (the Jewish Blog Carnival) is yummy!  Go check it out. Why do I want cholent on Sunday, 12:16 p.m.? Oy!  (See ya later. Gonna go down to the kitchen and get some leftover seudat mafseket*! ) * se'udat mafseket : the last meal before the fast of Yom Kippur, eaten this year Friday late afternoon.

. . . has been here at Ki Yachol Nuchal and live since August 22nd!! Read it fast: the next one's coming out tomorrow, er--today (yikes!)

I think I'm getting senile (G-d forbid).  I forgot again to post the link to the latest Haveil Havalim*, the weekly Jewish Blog Carnival.  Here it is, on Jewish Boston .  Read to your heart's content. (*As far as I know, they don't have numbers anymore. Everyone forgot the sequence.)

(nablopomo for day 26, a tad late. so what.) Haveil Havalim, the Jewish Blog Carnival, is up and running at this place .  Read it. That's an order. (But take it in a nice way. Please.)

It's been a really difficult week, but Haveil Havalim must go on!  The Jewish blog carnival, HH  #270 is up and running at Benji's What War Zone .  It was up on Sunday, June 6th (sorry 'bout that. . .). Be there or be square!

The latest weekly Jewish blog carnival, Haveil Havalim, is up and running at Ima's blog. She says it's number 266.  At this point, why argue--just read it!

Haveil Havalim is up ( was up yesterday*) at A Time of the Signs .  Moi, aussi am in it.  Read the other great posts as well.  It's a great way to get varied and interesting writing aggregated  into one spot. *Better late than never, I always say. Oh, and by the way.  Read or re-read my last post on the Zionist Palestinian Organization, guest posted on The Israel Situation, here .

Simply Jews says it's number 263. . . I say it's #265. . . whatever!   It's up, so just read it, okay? I was never good at math, anyway (if I'm right, you can thank me later).

. . .and running at Frume Sarah's, here . So what are you waiting for? Go, seek--and ye shall READ!

The Empty-Seat-at-my-Seder edition number two-hundred-sixty-two, I believe, is up and running at Jack's. Read it quick , before Yom Tov sets in tomorrow night. . .!

The latest Haveil Havalim, the ubiquitous weekly Jewish Blog Carnival, pre-Pesach edition (I made that up) #261 (nope, didn't make that up: it's the correct number) is up at Jack's . Would have posted about it yesterday, but I was sick-sick-sick. Am better now, thank G-d. Better be: kids coming in three days, yikes!!! Back to reading...er...cleaning...!

. . . at Yachdus, with the " Geulah (redemption) Edition " #260. Click and read to your heart's desire (there's already time for reading before Pesach), and then go back to cleaning--you can't escape it in the end! Pesach kasher ve-sameach to all. *picture by Sora Rivka Daina, on Chinuch.org

This week's Hevel (Havel, Haveil--your choice) Havalim #250 is up and running at Tzedek Tzedek . Great posts, interesting reads--Go for it!

Help! I was inexorably drawn into the NaBl0PoMo whirlpool, and now I'm whirling around and having second thoughts. You see, there is something you don't know about me, something terrible-awful which I am about to reveal to my millions of readers (no problem there, eh?). That something is just this: I am afraid of commitments and responsibilities. Yes. It's true. I am reluctant to return RSVPs to weddings, dinners, or melaveh malkahs. Even though I teach privately twice a week, a couple of hours before my classes a great wave of fear goes through me, and I have to fight off the urge to... cancel all my classes! Sometimes, when a Monday or a Wednesday comes around (the evenings I teach), and class was already cancelled for another reason (such as last week's classes because of our Chanukah party), but I've forgotten for a moment, I panic--and as I begin to remember the cancellation, it feels as if a great weight has been lifted off me and I'm free --and the...