"Every day above ground is a good day." I'm a musician and Yiddish researcher living in the woods. Read about my various projects at JanePeppler.com. I often wonder if I was supposed to have lived some different life.

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Best of Pratie Place:

In which I take Menticia and Itxa to the beach

I go sailing, make biofuel, and have blissful moments.

John Desiderio.

Lurkers' theme song.

Whatever.

I report verbosely.

Bush gets plutoed

The things they left behind.

I hate suspense.

Bulgarian National Revival Architecture

100 Things About Other People

My day

Lunch with a Curmudgeonly Friend

The Locrian String Quartet

Blueberries, Hot Sauce, Yoga, and deep-fat-fried Twinkies

Melinama's Sonnet Service

Lite-Form and Me

The Incredible Hulk

Bad Spelling and Weird Food at the State Fair

Swan Lake

Omagh, Bluegrass, the Sacred Harp, and Bollywood

Questing Behavior

Brides Do Not Control the Heavens

Bachelor Meals

Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

Don't reject serendipity

Jefferson's Cheese

Dangerous Toys

St. Patrick's Day Story

Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969

An Introvert is Watching You

You Never Miss the Water ...

Lorax Hall of Shame #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

Sweet Potato Queens' Advice to the Lovelorn

Jewish Pirates of New Orleans

A few of my daughter Melina's great posts:

Wedding Vendors - some not very useful rankings

Yes, But What Can You DO?

Republican Woodstock: The Neshoba County Fair

In Which, I Bake

The Minor Adventures: Fire Island

My Terrible, Horrible Dinner

Delta Safari

New Orleans

My very earliest Yiddish translations:
The Old Story (preamble)
Mendele Moykher Sforim's first preamble
The Hullaballoo aka The Crisis (Di Behole)
When I'm Warren Buffet (Ven Ikh Bin Rothschild)
The Big Windfall (A Groyse Gevins)
Gimpel the Fool (Gimpl Tam)