The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
Former Jersey girl says:
I got this in the mail (thanks, Eric!) and had to share. You know you’re from New Jersey when…. You’ve been seriously injured at Action Park. Nope. Too smart to go there. You know that the only people who call … Continue reading
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Compare and contrast: the UNHRC on Israel and the UAE
Compare and contrast the following reports from the UN Human Rights Council. Let’s look at one paragraph of recommendations for Israel (that don’t include the Palestinians, as most of them do). Please note the tone. It’s very important. Among the … Continue reading
99 UNHRC demands
The UN Human Wrongs Council has made a list of 99 “recommendations” (we shall call them “demands”) that Israel must follow before, presumably, the UNHRC stops blaming Israel for all of the wrongs in the world while ignoring utterly the … Continue reading
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Working from homes
One of the advantages of working from home via a laptop is that you can actually work anywhere you can get an internet connection or, in my case, a Sprint Broadband connection. And even though Sarah lives in the deepest, … Continue reading
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Iran sending ship to be turned back at Gaza
Iran is going to send a ship of humanitarian aid to be turned back from Gaza. No word whether or not that aid includes the ingredients to make rockets, EFPs, and tons of ammunition. Iran’s Red Crescent announced on Wednesday … Continue reading
Paying the terrorists to bomb Israeli schools
You can spin this any way you like, the bottom line is this: When $25 million goes into Gaza, rockets come out. Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday approved the transfer of NIS 100 million ($25.5 million) from the West … Continue reading
Sorry folks. I ran out of gas.
Not really. But I got very busy today, and was very busy last night, which is why you didn’t get much in the way of posting from me. I’ll put something up tomorrow.
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Cause and effect
A World Health Organization found that Israeli children are showing more symptoms of stress than any other children worldwide. A recent study by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that Israeli children are more irritable and experience more anger than … Continue reading
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AP finally notices rockets raining down on Israel—barely
Buried deep within the AP story on Israel stopping yet another attempt to break its blockade of Gaza are these few words about the daily rocket barrages resuming: Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gaza after the militant Hamas … Continue reading
Haveil Havalim
This week’s Carnival of the Jews is up, and I had time to read some selections. A Tale of Two Engineers (in one of the attacked hotels in Mumbai). Another from Treppenwitz: His memories of the Holtzbergs. So why kill … Continue reading
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Boys and cat toys
Remember this post? The one where I showed you how my mother utterly spoils my cats? Well, as a result of her visit, Tig now has a nightly routine with me (or at least, I thought it was just with … Continue reading
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Chabad massacre: They did try to kill the baby
I have not written about the Mumbai terrorist attack for a variety of reasons. There is a half-finished essay that is waiting for the right words before you can see it. One of the things I wondered was why the … Continue reading
An open letter to the world media
Dear World Media, I know you’ve been very busy with much more important things, like Jews fighting Jews in Hebron (you really love when that happens), or Gaza banks closing due to Israel’s refusal to hand money over to Hamas … Continue reading
The UN’s Israel obsession, continued
Libya called the UN Security Council into an emergency session on Wednesday. Was it war? Famine? Zimbabwe? Sudan? Piracy off the coast of Africa? The situation in Mumbai? Afghanistan? China? Tibet? Kashmir? Nope. It’s because the IDF turned back a … Continue reading
For the record:
I would just like to say that I have never, do not currently, and never will have a “dream timepiece.” I mean, for eff’s sake, it’s a watch. You tell time with it. You wear it on your wrist, or … Continue reading
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