holtzmanjoan, Author at Voice of the Owl

Tea Sandwiches and Threats

Natalie Bivas — “What am I supposed to do with this cucumber sandwich?”, I wondered. I had just put it on my little paper dessert..

Israel, Hamas, Gaza

Joan Holtzman — Most of my friends and many readers of the OWL have lived our long lives in the shadow of the Holocaust. We..

Colette Maze

–A Pianist Who Started Recording in Her 80s, Dies at 109 — Born before the outbreak of World War I, she began making albums in..

Full Circle

Lillian Rand — A year ago at his time, I was living in a beautiful Tudor home in the suburbs that I had lived in..

Some Jewish Humor

Sayings of the Jewish Buddha — If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so..

“Hear Ye! Hear Ye!”

La Doris Cordell — IF I were the trial judge in any of the four criminal cases against Trump, how would I sanction him for..

Three Fish

Don Stewart — GOLDFISH — Go for the Gold Record, Gold Medal, Gold Watch, Golden Fleece, Golden Glove, Golden Graham Cracker, Medicinal Gold, Gold Mining..

Fixable

Caryn Huberman — Nelly worked for us for almost fifty years. She was a member of the family, but we had to let her go...

Very Punny

A plateau is a high form of flattery. A calendar’s days are numbered. A thief who stole a calendar… got twelve months. A bicycle can’t..

Owls With a Small “o”

Joan Holtzman —I write here about real owls, the actual birds that inspired our acronym. The reason being that for almost two years these small..

The Trump Indictments

Joan Holtzman — It is a small data point, but I want to report that most of my OWL friends are following the Trump indictments..

On Being Hospitalized

Evelyn Philipps — Following a recent fall at the home of my daughter, I was hospitalized for the first time since I was in a..

Clueless

Pete Philipps — “How America does business” is an all-too-often mantra in our house. The most recent instance involved the installation of stair rails, as..

Courses, Lectures and Books

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) offers courses for older adults at many college and universities around the country. https://olli.sfsu.edu/ ### Many of our best universities..

Amazing and Beautiful!

Five prizewinning photomicrographic images (courtesy of Nikon small world). — A micrograph, or photomicrograph, is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or..

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