Skype is the greatest. I have only recently started to expand my skyping to include more than just my immediate family. I need to tilt my monitor so that the top is more toward me to have a better reception at the other end. It is amazing how important the background is to make it even more enjoyable. On my back wall in the office there is a Fiddler on the Roof picture that was used as a billboard for a 1994 play in Mountain View, CA.
Today I spoke with Alva Dworkin. She is publishing an unusual book that will be ready for her presentation at the IAYC conference in Novi, MI in August. Another one of these stories will be published in Der Bay in the Fall.
Boris Kopit of Rochester, NY is sending a few of his many Yiddish sayings that he has collected over the years. He has them in English, and transliteration as well as the etymology of the words. Boris is remarkable and spends quite a bit of time in Costa Rico. When he is in Rochester, he works in his business doing upholstery. Der tupitser is the Yiddish term for the upholsterer. I did not know that. Thanks Boris!
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