A Presentation of the Colors at the beginning of last Tuesday night’s Rockies vs. Cincinnati Reds game was brightened by the voices of the Colorado Jewish Youth Chorus who proudly belted out the National Anthem on the left outfield grass. Ranging from 3^rd to 12^th grades, the youngsters were led by Cantor Uri Ayn Rovner of Calliope Music Studios, and the fans were generous in their applause. The kids were thrilled to appear before the hometown crowd.  We and the other grandparents and parents of the Chorus members were particularly moved by the children’s performance and were wildly enthusiastic in expressing our appreciation of their efforts.  The kids may have even been a little embarrassed by our flailing of arms and screams for their attention as “so proudly we hailed.” [Read more…]

The Yiddish language contains some wonderfully expressive idioms, and as grandparents we are, from time to time, given the opportunity to”schlep nachas” (wordy English equivalent  is “experience great happiness”) from the deeds of our grandkids.  Such an experience was ours when we attended last week’s 2016 Bobby G Awards ceremony at the Denver Center’s Buell Theater.

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I recently read that Donna Lynne is leaving her job as a top executive of Kaiser Permanente to become Colorado’s newest lieutenant governor. Actually, that job should have gone to me, but I didn’t plan for the job and she did. [Read more…]

When my daughter was a teen in high school, she asked that she be allowed to attend a movie with her friends on a Friday night. As background, Friday nights were our family time, when we all sat at the dinner table, talking about our week, the weekend, etc. (We won’t talk about how the number who started at the table and the number that made it through until the end was often not the same.) [Read more…]