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Friday, June 08, 2007
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I know, I should have called James G. again this week to sub for me, because the business of wrangling the keyboard is not a pleasant one at the moment. Oh, don't those best laid plans gang aft awry? A couple of weeks ago I managed to pull my right arm, or overuse it, or do something that resulted in a series of severe muscle spasms. Who would have thought muscle spasms could be so painful, as in cry yourself to sleep painful. I finally went along to the emergency room – and don't you see it all in an emergency room? They gave me painkillers and told me to see my orthopedic surgeon, as the arm in question was the one broken several years ago in a riding accident. Had a great recovery after that accident, managed to get 100% of my range of motion back and wrote my first novel while recovering – but in all that time I never had pain like this.
So now I'm having physical therapy and typing with one hand again, and actually taking the painkillers. I come from a family where it's considered poor form to take meds, to even need to take meds, which is why we are having so much trouble with my mother, who's saying she can do without the cocktail of statins, blood-thinners and anti-cholesterol drugs she's been prescribed since she suffered a mild stroke eighteen months ago. Mum, just take the [blank] meds, would you, so we can all sleep at night?
The physical therapist says that the good news is that the really bad muscle spasms like mine ("Haven't seen one this bad for a long time.") tend to improve faster. Oh deep joy. But in all of this, I remember that it will go, that it is small in the grand scheme of things, and as I clutch my arm in agony, which I have to do every now and again, I can hear my mother saying, "Think of the people far worse off than you!" I am sure she even said that to my brother when he had a really bad stomach ache that turned out to be peritonitis!
So, I've been thinking of all the people I know who are struggling with pain, and many of those I don't know, but whom I think about nevertheless. And I don't want this to be the doom and gloom blog, but there are many, many truly courageous people out there, ordinary folk beset with pain, discomfort and ill health. And having just a slice of that experience for a few weeks brings it home even more.
I remember when I broke my arm in 2001, I had this sort of large, bulky padded sling thing I had to wear (I called it "the structure"). It was interesting to me that, when we were out, people – in stores, restaurants and the like – would sometimes refer questions to my husband rather than me, as in, "What would she like to drink." To which, by that stage, I would chime in with: "She didn't break her voice or her mind, and she'd like a gin and tonic, please!" I'd heard of people in wheelchairs having to deal with such behavior, but not people like me, with a broken arm.
In the midst of my recent malaise, Newsweek carried a cover feature on pain, how much pain there is out there, and what is being done about it. I have been thinking about the wounded coming back from Iraq, or Afghanistan – remember Afghanistan, it's where we were successfully chasing down the terrorists before resources were diverted to a war in Iraq, the one that makes no sense whatsoever. There are thousands of young men and women coming back from war with injuries from the minor to the profound, and all of them with even deeper wounds to the soul. Experts on PTSD believe this phenomenon is a disaster waiting to happen, that we have no idea how the numbers of wounded might affect society in years to come. Remember the time when it seemed that not a week went by without a Vietnam vet going mad with a gun in a MacDonald's? Pain – in the body and mind – is at the root of such violence.
Being in pain made me think of my behavior. I became less than patient, snapping at those closest to me. I put the 'phone down on an unhelpful appointment clerk, whereas normally, I would have stuck to my "wear them down with kindness" motto. There have been times when I just had to shut myself away or I would snap. And this is a little old muscle spasm – how do we comfort people who are coming back from war?
History informs us that, post-war, we like our heroes in one piece, not missing bits of body. When I first came here to live in the U.S., I wondered why there were so many men just a bit older than me, amputees begging on the streets, with signs saying, "Starving Vet." Of course, veterans of the Vietnam war had a different cross to bear, but what will happen to the veterans of our current wars, in time, when they are not fresh-faced and young, but older, stooped, with their experiences writ large on their faces? How will their pain be eased, even if they are up to their eyes in Vicodin?
Right now, I'm feeling fortunate that, even if it takes a month or two or three, this pain will be gone. I will be back to my usual active, happy self. I'm something of a fatalist, and believe that nothing happens without good reason. One of my friends asked if I'd had any great ideas for new novels, knowing that my accident six years ago effectively changed my life. Trust me, on Perkoset, you are having good ideas all the time! But the fact is, that this current experience has done something for me. It's reminded me again, how fortunate I am to have so much in life, and most important - my health.
Sorry, no pics this week – that left hand can't run to cut, paste, and the fingerobatics required for such special effects.
PS: And I should add that I am my mother's daughter - being on painkillers scares the heck out of me, so I am only taking about a quarter of the dose I should be taking, cutting up the pills in case I get addicted!
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Hi Jacqueline,ReplyDelete
I've been adding to my body of work review on you, and some of it covers the injured returned soldiers problems you mentioned in this post. Sorry it isn't finished yet, but I'm getting there. :-D
I'm so sorry about your shoulder. I hope the pain goes away soon. I'm like you when it comes to meds: take the absolute smallest dose you can get away with. :-) Maybe it was the upbringing...
Anyway, I hope you feel better soon. And if you aren't going to take your full painkillers, then think about relaxation meditation. When we are tense, the muscles bunch up - this type of thing aggravates my migraine problem - so meditation to relax is good. Think of it as your own personal therapy workout. :-D
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Hi Marianne, and thanks for the good wishes. You know, before I had my surgery for that broken arm, I meditated with the intention of having no pain whatsoever. I'd already been doing research for Maisie Dobbs, and discovered that, in WW1, the US Army had looked carefully at the type of wounds suffered by the Allied soldiers and the fact that many wounded would lay waiting for hours and hours until stretcher bearers reached them. So, in anticipation of eventually having to join the fray, they began experimenting with self-hypnosis, so that the US soldiers would be able to self-medicate with their minds when wounded. So, I tried it, and it was really interesting - I didn't need so much as a Tylenol following my surgery, and the nurses wanted to give me morphine because they couldn't believe that someone could have orthopedic surgery and not be in pain. I've been trying to go back to that meditation, but it's hard ot do once the pain has taken hold. Interesting though!
- Anonymous6/08/2007 10:29 AM
We're all hoping for your speedy return to a pain-free life. I'm also thinking that "Percocet" is a grand name for a horse.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/08/2007 11:19 AM
Pain makes egocentrics of us all, because when we hurt, that's all we can think about. Dr. Smiley believes in taking the full doze of pain medication and resting. Trust her, she knows about these things...ReplyDelete
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Ooops, I spelled Percocet incorrectly - and you're right, great name for a horse. I'll keep that one in mind. And Patty, if I didn't have to submit a revised manuscript to my publisher on Monday, I might well be on the full dose of painkillers!
- Anonymous6/08/2007 5:53 PM
PLEASE don't be a martyr. It's horsepuckey that you could get addicted in such a short time when you need the medication. There are dozens and DOZENS of studies that prove that in a vast majority of cases, people taking pain medication FOR PAIN do not risk addiction. You're in serious pain you're dealing with a very nasty problem (muscle spasms sounds so la-dee-da, don't they? They're vicious and I so understand what you are living with) and you're being - well forgive me, I don't know you, but you're being um, well, dumb. Sorry but there it is. You want your mother to take what will help her but you won't help yourself. Hmmmm??ReplyDelete
I have lived with chronic serious pain for 30 years. I take strong narcotic medication. And most people who know me (including your blogmate, my bestbuddy, secret sister Cornelia) will tell you I am a living breathing, functioning, non-addicted person.
Pain is exhausting and you will heal slower if you don't take care of it because it's a tax on your entire system. You need to lower your stress, you need to let things calm, and you have to get a decent night's sleep so you can heal right? Pain medication will go a long way towards accomplishing that.
I don't mean to berate you, honestly, but you're being silly. You ARE NOT going to get addicted to percoset because you take it for a few days for serious pain. Why people still believe that in spite of a raft of evidence to the contrary baffles me. I can probably point you to a study or 12 that will back me up but please take my word for it for now instead? Legit
doctors do not prescribe percoset if they think addiction is the likely outcome. In 2007, thinking it's "poor form" to take stuff is masochistic, no matter how ingrained it is.
What you're dealing with is miserable; do what makes it better, okay?
Thanks, Andi, I think I needed that, and it's probably timely, in that I woke up in the night in great pain and thought, "To heck with this," only it wasn't quite that sentence and the word wasn't "heck."ReplyDelete
My husband would be the first to agree with you - he suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, in fact, we left the Bay Area to live in a more stable climate to try to diminish some of the pain he has to live with - and it worked too.
I guess I read too many of those articles on people becoming addicted, but right now, this thing is making me miserable, and I am not naturally a miserable person. So, thanks for the berating, it worked. I'm off to take another percocet and get rid of this pain. I felt such a wimp at first, because "muscle spasm" does sound so minor, but it really is a very nasty thing.
Thanks again, Andi.
Oh my dear Our J, I am so sorry to hear that you're hurting so much!! I'm glad Andi stepped in to berate you a bit. PLEASE take good care of yourself and get well soon!ReplyDelete
And just think, if you had a horse named Percoset, they could announce you as you came into the ring "Jacqueline Winspear, on Percoset..." Well, maybe you'd want to give that horse to someone for whom it would be more appropriate an introduction over the loudspeaker.
We used to make up horse names specifically for that announcement, for different people in our barn. One rather odiously bitchy woman was to have a horse named "The Rag," for instance.
Oh, Cornelia, that made me laugh! I have been looking - only in photos, thus far - at a horse with "Champagne" in his name, and rather like the name Champers - "Jacqueline Winspear on Champers" seems good to me, though I could always name a horse Ginand Tonic. Had a call from my mother a little while ago, just checking up on me. Like many people in the UK, she accesses the web via the TV, and though she can read our blog and the comments, she cannot actually make a comment - for this be grateful. Anyway, her first words to me were, "And you should listen to those people who are telling you to just take the painkillers, my girl." I'm over 50 and I still get the "my girl" when she's miffed at me!ReplyDelete
Glad to make you laugh! I like the idea of both Champers and Ginand Tonic. If I were ever to acquire a horse, it should probably be named Awinganda Prayer. Sounds downright Sanskritish.ReplyDelete
Hi Jackie,ReplyDelete
On a slightly lighter note (though it may not seem that way to anyone in a wheelchair)....
I laughed when i read your 'does he take sugar' moment. The same thing had just happened to me, and thankfully i too have no use for a wheelchair.
My neighbour recently started teaching me the piano, and the two of us were chatting to another neighbour, whose only comment was "can he do any tunes yet?".
Perhaps people's instinct is always to talk to the person who they sense is 'in charge'!
Sorry, should have added "however erroneosly"!ReplyDelete
Cornelia, Awinganda Prayer sounds like a mechanic on NPR's car talk! This will make a great game at the ranch where I keep my horse.ReplyDelete
And Robert, I think you're on the right track, on people talking to the person in charge, however, erroneously, however, it is really downright annoying! My mother-in-law has to use a wheelchair, and earlier in the year we went to a department store so that she could buy a certain type of make-up she likes. The first person we stopped to talk to tried to have the whole conversation with me, so we moved on. The second assistant paid complete attention to everything my mother-in-law said, brought out different things for her to try, and my mother-in-law went away with her card - she'll be getting a lot more business for talking to the person buying. And to talk to her customer, she even knelt down so that she was at eye level, and not peering down from a great height.
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A few weeks ago we were invited to a cookout with some friends who also have children. While the dads entertained the children with armpit farts and water guns, the mommies started discussing helpful child-rearing ideas.
Idea #1 was suggested by a mom to three girls who are similar in age to my three boys. Her suggestion was that you mark a dot with a Sharpie on the tag inside their clothes. The oldest gets one dot, the middle child gets two dots, and the youngest gets three dots. When clothes are handed down from the oldest to the middle child, you simply add a dot. When you're doing laundry, you can quickly look at the tag and know which clothes belong to which child. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?
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I read in Disney's FamilyFun Magazine about a family that used a Marble Jar to motivate their children to help out around the house. In "Don't Lose Your Marbles," author Melissa O'Brian discusses how she implemented a system in which her kids are rewarded with a certain number of marbles based on the task they complete.
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I think that was a DIG; the insinuation being that her children are intrinsically motivated to contribute to the successful functioning of their family unit, while mine will only work for marbles. She continued by talking about how her girls make their beds every morning and put their own clothes away in their drawers and eat vegetables and whatnot.
Good. For. You.
The marble system works for us. When I say that the garbage needs to go out, the boys (sometimes . . . if there's nothing good on tv . . . ) come running into the kitchen to take it out. They help move clothes from the washer to the dryer. They help me Swiffer the kitchen floor. It's not perfect, but that's not the point. They're helping out around the house, and I see no reason why they shouldn't be rewarded for good behavior. We don't give them some arbitrary weekly allowance; they help because we're a family and we all contribute.
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AstraZeneca drug selumetinib fails in lung cancer study
AstraZeneca's cancer drug pipeline suffered a setback on Tuesday when the experimental drug selumetinib failed to meet its goal in a late-stage trial for lung cancer.
Hopes for the medicine had already been reduced after it failed in another study for treating a rare cancer of the eye in July 2015, although it may still have a role in a type of thyroid cancer and in cancers growing along nerve tissue.
Selumetinib is viewed as less important than AstraZeneca's recently launched cancer drugs Tagrisso and Lynparza, and its closely watched experimental product durvalumab.
Hopes for immunotherapy medicine durvalumab have been fuelled in recent days by the failure of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo in previously untreated lung cancer patients. Analysts believe this could open up the market opportunity for AstraZeneca.
Selumetinib belongs to a class of cancer drugs known as MEK inhibitors.
The British drugmaker said that when selumetinib was given with chemotherapy it did not slow lung cancer progression as hoped or have a significant effect on overall survival.
Sean Bohen, head of medicines development, described the Phase III trial result as "disappointing", since the drug had shown promise in earlier Phase II results in non-small cell lung cancer.
AstraZeneca is relying on oncology treatments to revive its fortunes following a wave of patent expiries.
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I met with the Staff-Parish Relations Committee of our church in the spring of 2011. I was being introduced to them as the candidate for their new pastor. Their task and mine was to discern whether the proposed match would be a right one.
Some of the questions that folks from the Staff-Parish Relations Committee asked me that night involved matters of church health and vitality. Anyone who has a heart for their church, after all, wants to see it strong and prospering. Likewise, anyone who has a heart for their community or their world wants to see the church fulfilling its whole mission. And anyone who has a heart for the Lord wants to see the church being faithful to His high calling.But how do we guarantee all of that? How to make all of that happen?I shared with the committee that night what I believe is a fairly simple recipe. Just make disciples. For if you make disciples, then disciples will do what disciples do. If the church is full of disciples, you see – full of people who are living with Jesus, people who are living like Jesus, and people who are living for Jesus – then everything else will follow. A church that is full of disciples will be all that it ought to be. And a church that is full of disciples will do all that it is called to do. And so my goal and my purpose is to make disciples. Do you want to be one? Do you want to make others?
From the day in Eden when God said, "It is not good for man to be alone," He has been putting us together in relationship. Relationship is not always easy, of course, but it is His will for us. And it is an essential part of how He makes us all that He wants us to be.
So it is that we do not become disciples on our own. It happens in relationship. It happens in a group.If you want to be a disciple, therefore, you need to be part of a group. That's more than having your name on a roll; it's a commitment and a shared experience. And the group itself must understand that this is what they are about: following Jesus together.
The idea of fast-track discipleship seems to me a little like fast-track gestation. Some things cannot be fast and easy. Some things simply take time to develop. That appears to be God's design in significant areas of life. And so it is with discipleship.
Jesus did not lead Peter and company through a quick, six-week course. It was not fast and easy. No, they followed Him, lived with Him, watched Him and learned from Him for apparently three years. It was only then, after He had really made them into disciples, that He turned them loose in the world to "go and make disciples" themselves. I am encouraging us to focus on becoming disciples, but I won't be purchasing the "fast track" resource to help us do it. For while we are naturally attracted to that which is fast and easy, it's hard to square "take up your cross" with convenience.
Whenever someone makes a tremendous impact or achieves some great accomplishment, it's natural to wonder how they did it. D. Michael Henderson has made such a study of John Wesley. He notes that Wesley "created an instructional system which brought about a national spiritual renewal in 18th century England" and that "his techniques for nurturing and training Christian disciples not only brought about personal transformation to tens of thousands of individual believers, but a moral reformation to the nation as well." And so Henderson set out to answer the question: "How did John Wesley do that?"
"The heart of this revolutionary system," Henderson writes, "was a cell group of six to eight people which Wesley named 'the class meeting.' …The class meeting proved to be such an effective tool for radical personal change that it can be acknowledged as the pivotal element of the Methodist movement, the vehicle of change, the medium which enabled the message to be internalized." "The primary value in studying the class meeting today," Henderson concludes, "is to gain insights and methods for the Church's central task: making Christian disciples."
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"The Christian life is, first, a life lived with Jesus. Increasingly, then, the Christian life is a life lived like Jesus. And, ultimately, as disciples, the Christian life is a life lived for Jesus."
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Elk Burgers au Poivre with Red Wine Sauce
In developing " Elk Burgers au Poivre with Red Wine Sauce" and for many of my recipes for game, I often refer to chefs I admire, and work with their successes. One such man who has been my silent mentor over the years is French chef Pierre Franey. The late Franey, fondly known to his followers as The New York Times "60-Minute Gourmet" taught us all that we too could make restaurant quality food in an hour! The chef/columnist is also remembered for his popular cooking shows on public television. Franey's career spanned for 60-years.
Below is a link to a website his children launched in his memory.
Pierre Franey – Website Dedicated by his children
Elk Burgers au Poivre with Red Wine Sauce
- 1 1/2 Ground Elk (or any venison)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup finely chopped sweet onion
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 1/2 cup venison broth (or beef broth)
- Put ground elk in a mixing bowl & set aside.
- Heat olive oil in a small saute' pan. Add onions, and cook till wilted. Add garlic, and cook a few minutes more. Cool.
- Add the cooled onion-garlic mixture, chili powder, ground pepper, pepper flakes, and salt to the ground elk. mix thoroughly with your hands, and shape into 4 patties.
- Heat a heavy skillet just large enough to hold the 4 burgers in one layer. (do not add fat of any kind) When skillet is very hot, add the burgers and do not attempt to move for a minimum of 3 minutes for medium rare. Turn, and cook another 3 minutes and cover on a plate to rest.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in the skillet. Cook shallots till wilted. Add the wine, broth, and simmer, stir or whisk till reduced by half. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter, and whisk till smooth.
- Pour over burgers, and serve immediately with your favorite sides.


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Tribute To Alfred Gottschalk
Gerald Bubis
In the 60's I was the executive director of the Long Beach Jewish Community Center. Fred and I had never met but had heard of each other. The summer of the Six Day War proved to be eventful for all of us on many levels. But it changed my life in unimaginable ways.
Ruby and I had arrived in Israel a few weeks after the war to attend the first World Seminar for Jewish Communal service professionals. The program had been organized by Professor Moshe Davis, Director of the Center for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. The six weeks seminar proved to be an electrifying one – but that's another story. Following the seminar, the first world conference for Jewish communal professions took place at the University. It attracted some 500 professionals from throughout the world. Fred and I were both in attendance. We met at an artist's home in Jerusalem, chatted, compared notes on people we knew, the conference itself and agreed to meet one day in Los Angeles.
Out of the blue in February, Fred called me. Over the phone he asked me if I'd be interested in becoming director of a proposed School of Jewish Communal Service. Intrigued at the thought of a new professional adventure for a few years, I took the job. Now, forty years later, 21 of which I served as the School's director, what did I learn from and about Fred Gottschalk?
Let me explain: In 1964 he had asked a mutual dear friend, Bert Gold, the CEO of all the JCC's in LA and later CEO of the American Jewish Committee to conduct a feasibility study. The intention was to demonstrate the need for a School of Jewish Communal Service to be on the LA campus – then a run- down estate in the Hollywood Hills. It was his vision that the school be open to Jews of any ideology who wished to serve the community in the broadest sense. Bert's "study" did not exactly meet the rigorous definition of being a real study. It really didn't demonstrate the feasibility of such a program. It did advocate that a curriculum be developed which would somehow synthesize the study of Jewish values, history and literature while mastering professional skills and methods. The proposed annual"budget"?
$34,000(!!), to cover my salary, secretary and faculty salaries, scholarships, travel, supplies.
Fred had "sold" President Nelson Glueck on the need for such a program, reminding
him that Isaac Mayer Wise, in founding HUC, had envisioned preparing rabbis, educators and social workers to serve all America Jews.
I saw the budget and pointed out its unrealistic projections. Fred's answer "We'll worry about that later". Not only had he become a bit "duplicitous" but as he pointed out to me at the time, he felt he had a mentor in Shai Zeldin, who had preceded him as dean. He laughingly recalled that it took him years to recruit the number of students Shai had been reporting as the size of the student body to Nelson Glueck. He admired Shai for creating "facts" so as to bring a dream into reality. Fred had "chutzpah" and he took risks, not the least of which was to offer me the position of director.. I had no academic experience. I had no doctorate. I was not a Reform Jew.
He believed in order to "groom" me and give me an opportunity to succeed, that I begin work July, 1968 with a two-week vacation so I would be refreshed. The biggest and most daring gift followed. Without informing Glueck, Fred asked me to take the following year to build a curriculum, recruit faculty and a student body. I spent the year reading all I could find about prior schools and programs, traveling to major cities in the U.S. and Canada, consulting with lay and professional leadership as to what they felt a Jewish communal professional should know, value and master by way of comprehensive skills. I developed a real budget to do all this which he accepted and later once again "sold" to Nelson Glueck. He urged me to find students for the two summer's certificate program which I proposed the school begin with. Students were recruited from the field; Secular, Reform, Conservative Reconstructionist, Orthodox one even one Lubavitch. Money was set aside to give extra scholarship support to observant students for dishes, utensils, Kosher food and the like (at the time for the summer certificate program). Fred and I agreed on this as matter of principle. So we began.
Early on I wrote an article entitled Brokha Brokers and Power Brokers. My style was sardonic. The premise was that rabbis possessed knowledge which was portable. Yet in Jewish public life they had been put into the position of delivering opening and closing blessings at Jewish public events, hence they had become the blessing dispensers, hence Brokha Brokers. Federation directors, in turn, were seen as the Power Brokers in Jewish life. It was my premise that they didn't really understand their power was really institutional more than personal. When they left their positions, that power remained at the job and was not portable. All hell broke loose. Many rabbis took my article to be an insult to the rabbinate even though my intention had been to demonstrate that the rabbinate were undervalued and underappreciated. I was accused in print and privately of being a "Trojan Horse". By that time our USC-HUC partnership had began to blossom. Colleagues urged Fred to fire me. Nelson Glueck pressured him to do so. I did not have tenure, yet Fred resisted all the pressure and supported me unconditionally. There were other situations where faculty and prominent rabbis attempted to close the school, believing it had no place at HUC. Fred remained resolute.
He continued to encourage my efforts to educate people to serve in all settings, not just the Reform movement, a practice which continues to this day. When I proposed the Israel Seminar as a required course, he quickly approved the program, even though it was not budgeted. . By the early 1970's the dual programs with USC began as the first example of the HUC-USC partnership. The partnership of degree programs has since expanded to include five different dual degree options.
Fred's passion in raising money for the Los Angeles campus was born of a belief - a strong belief – that HUC needed to be in, and of, the city. When building plans were finalized and the contractor chosen, Fred insisted on sub-contractors from the local community be utilized wherever possible. He wanted to have HUC live the Jewish values of concern for all. When the riots took place, nothing happened to HUC.
After Fred became president, he continued to support me, the school, my dreams for it. I know he had many confidants. I consider myself to be one of them. He shared many of his dreams, concerns, fears and intentions. His passion for the College, for Israel, the Jewish people and the need to help better the world in general never left him. I think his experiences as a football player stood him in good stead. He knew when to stand his ground, make end runs, respect his team mates and his foes.
Some could say his passion for the College drove him to build physical structures to demonstrate his philosophy. Certainly in Israel, building upon Glueck's love for Israel, he established a physical presence of substance and permanence. It demonstrated beyond words his belief in Israel and Progressive Judaism.
Fred gave me the last 40 plus years because he believed in me and dreamed for me far more than I ever dreamed for myself.
I miss Fred, my friend and fellow dreamer - schemer–
May his memory be a blessing for all of us.


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I'm writing this article at a retreat in Arizona. I'm staring out at a gorgeous heated saltwater pool with a faux-rock waterslide. Beyond is the desert—miles and miles of sand and cacti and a seemingly endless, perfect blue sky. Downstairs are writers whom I've long admired, and I still find it totally surreal that they like me enough—and take my writing seriously enough—to invite me to this creative oasis.
But I am in tears. I'm not talking a little misty-eyed; I'm talking the body-shaking, snot-all-over-my-face, eyes-burning sort of crying. No one knows this except the friend that I've emailed and my husband, who's dealt with this more times than he can probably count in our six years together. He doesn't know what to say. Nothing comforts me. There are no words.
That's the problem. There are NO words.
I'm here to work on a novel. My fourth (sort of). I published two novels, in 2008 and 2009, and with a big publishing house—MTV Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was something I dreamed about doing for as long as I could remember, ever since I read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. I wanted to be Laura. Before I started kindergarten, I would dress up in a hand-me-down Laura Ashley dress that I thought looked "prairie style" and march around in my snow boots in the humid St. Louis summer. I decided that one day I would write my memoirs, just like my literary idol. When I was eight, my family moved to Chicago, and I have distinct memories of mentally narrating my school day: "She approaches her locker. Every day is a struggle to remember the combination…"
I realized then that my life was not nearly as interesting as Laura's, so I turned to fiction and started a story about a colony of cows living on the moon. At that point, writing was just this thing I enjoyed. I mean, I wanted to get published, but I thought my actual career would be something in the medical field, like my nurse parents. I even studied psychology for a year in college, but I dropped out because I couldn't resist the pull of writing. It was all I wanted to do. So I went back to school at 21 to get a bachelor's and master's degree in creative writing, and during those six years, I finished one book, completed a rough draft of another, and landed a literary agent. Within a year of graduating, I had my first book deal, and before that book even came out, my publisher agreed to buy my second. The wildest dreams of my prairie-dress-wearing five-year-old self had come true.
My books debuted with covers so gorgeous I couldn't have dreamed better ones. They were on bookstore shelves for everyone to see, and I went to those bookstores and read from them and met people who read, liked, and related to them. I met other authors, people whose worked I loved, and they told me—ME!—that they loved my books. It was the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me.
However, in the eyes of my publisher, it wasn't nearly as amazing. My books did not sell enough to justify buying a third. My editor didn't want another YA book, but she was interested in an adult novel. Crushed as I was, I used those words to rally myself. I got back to work.
The third book took almost two years to finish, and for most of that time, the writing felt about as good as pulling my own fingernails out. I've lost count of how many times I almost quit that book, thinking that I would be the only one who liked these characters, or that I didn't have the talent to do the story justice. But when I was finally done, and this was about a year ago, I was proud. Unfortunately, by that time, my editor had left Simon & Schuster for her own dream job, and so far, even though I love the book and my agent loves it, no publisher has loved it enough to buy it.
Each day that goes by erodes more of my faith, my certainty, that writing is what I'm meant to do. It kills me to go to family gatherings or to lunch with friends whom I haven't seen in a while, or even to get tweets from well-meaning fans, because people always ask, "So are you still writing? Did ya ever finish that book?" As if I've spent the last three and a half years doing nothing! I know they don't mean it that way, but that's how I take it—these innocent questions feel like an indictment. I'm a slow writer. A slacker. And, above all else, a failure.
Slacking and failing are things I don't do. Even in high school, when I was acting like I didn't care, when I was ditching class to smoke pot on a regular basis, I still made sure I got straight A's. And writing—that's what I'm supposed to be best at. I'd never been athletic or particularly artistic. I was average-looking, and smart, but not a genius. I'd never really shone or stood out at anything until I started writing. I did it better than anything else—not better than anyone else, but I had a gift. Or at least I thought I did.
Two months after my first book came out, I quit my office job. I was earning a decent salary and had amazing benefits, but it sapped all of my energy and was slowly killing my soul, making it hard to come home and do anything else at night. So I went back to one of the jobs I'd held while in grad school—bartending. It allowed me time during the day to write, and originally I believed what so many people repeatedly said to me: "There will be so many stories!" And yeah, I have some interesting characters for regulars, and some of my experiences inspired events in my book, but for the most part, like so many service-industry jobs, bartending is the same story over and over again: belligerent people treat you like shit and tip you poorly.
I honestly thought the job would be temporary. I didn't believe I'd become Stephen King or Stephenie Meyer overnight—in fact, I didn't even want to be them at all. I just thought I'd sell enough books to keep selling books, so I'd be able to make a living wage from what I loved to do. Instead, four years later, I spend my days writing fiction and doing freelance work, and my nights earning the majority of my income by bartending and teaching. I have no social life and I struggle to make ends meet, but the worst part is that I still feel like a slacker and a failure.
For two years in a row now, I've cobbled together the money to go on these writing retreats, and both times I've ended up having complete meltdowns. Last year I was working on a different fourth book—one that I thought was "high concept," which publishers like because they can market it with an elevator pitch, like "It's Buffy in outer space!" I thought it would save my career. My agent was so excited about it that she sent out a partial version of it with a synopsis, hoping we could sell it before it was even finished. When it became clear that wasn't going to happen, I froze and could no longer work on it.
So now I've started a different fourth novel, one about a girl grieving for her dead brother and getting caught up in an emotionally abusive relationship. Grief and emotional abuse are both things I've dealt with, so at first, this story was coming very naturally to me. Aside from being my dream, writing has always been a way for me to express my feelings. It's been integral to my emotional well-being. My characters deal with the things that my friends and I had—addiction, abuse, rape, pregnancy, depression. And this has helped me survive.
Which is why I'm crying so hard at this retreat. The tears started because, as usual, I've reached that part in the book where the plot seems too big and I don't have what it takes to make it work. Then I thought about my writer friends, and how I'll never be able to do what they do—I don't have their genius, I can't write a book in a year, and I don't write the kinds of novels that will top the New York Times best-seller list, or become movies, or at least provide a steady income—and I cried even more. But what's even worse than the idea that I broke my book and that I'll never be able to make a career out of writing is the realization that the thing that had always comforted me and given me strength to endure painful times was now the source of my pain.
I think about quitting writing at least twice a week. I've considered (and researched) becoming a librarian or a Montessori schoolteacher—things that would keep me feeling connected to literary creativity. But when I think too hard about it, I start to panic—cutting writing out of my life would be like cutting out my lungs. I couldn't breathe. This anxiety and depression actually got so bad that I went back to therapy for the first time in 10 years this summer. My therapist helped me realize that, difficult as it may be, the only thing I can do is try to regain confidence in myself and my art.
When I'm at my lowest, like I am at this retreat, I need to cool down, clear my head, and try some stress-relief techniques. So I take advantage of that gorgeous swimming pool and do laps, back and forth. I cry while I swim, and during my shower afterwards. I cry until I'm calm enough to spend a little time knitting. I need a creative outlet, and while I'm not particularly good at crafts, that's a plus in this case, because it means I don't beat myself up. I can zone out while I knit or do T-shirt surgery.
After I'm calm, I begin to remind myself that every artist suffers this sort of disillusionment with their art. When I get brave enough to talk to my friends at the retreat about feeling stuck, they assure me that they've been there, too. "There's always a point where you doubt your entire concept," one of them tells me. They all have concerns that their success has been a fluke—any writer I've ever spoken to at length has admitted this to me. It's impossible not to have anxiety about the quality of your art, but I can use that anxiety to drive me forward. I tell myself that being anxious means I'm still challenging myself, and if that doesn't work, I'll give my worries to my characters, just like I have my other difficult emotions in the past.
These days I take special care to acknowledge my writing victories—satisfaction with an essay, getting lost in the creation of a new character, having a brilliant story idea in the shower, or even just coming up with one killer line. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out how a secondary character's brother died—an event that affects everyone in the book. One day, when I was sick, exhausted, and convinced I'd never write again, I talked the scene through with my husband and then forced myself to get out of bed and write it. It was just 750 words, but it felt like an enormous accomplishment. It's those little moments—when I forget that there's an endgame, something that I hope to sell—that remind me why I do what I do. I don't know if I'll ever again experience the huge rush of celebration that comes with the publication of a novel, but just having a day when I'm so into the story that I don't want to stop working on it to watch Mad Men is enough to keep me going right now. Each day I have to believe in myself enough to continue. I've lost confidence, but at least I have words. ♦


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Justin Thomas got a victory this weekend at the Honda Classic, but not without controversy. He had to deal with a "rowdy" golf fan, and ended up having them thrown out of the gallery. He had this to say about the guy he had thrown off the course:
"We were walking up on the [16th tee] and this guy, I don't know who he was talking to, but sounds like it was [to] me," Thomas said in his post-round presser. "He said something like — he was like, 'I hope you hit it in the water, hit it in the water,' something like that. I just kind of like looked back there. Didn't say anything.
"Just, again, I feel like there's no place for that, and I hit it and my ball is in the air and it's not — it's in the middle of the fairway and he's yelling for it to get in the bunker. I was like, okay, I've had enough. So I just turned around and asked who it was, and he didn't want to say anything, now that I had actually acknowledged him. So he got to leave a couple holes early.
I don't know much about Justin Thomas. If I'm being honest, today is probably the first time I've heard of him; guess I'm not a golf guy. But, to have someone thrown out for something so little is pretty petty to me. The guy was simply rooting against him; call the authorities.
Don't get me wrong, there are definitely reasons to kick someone off a golf course during competition:
- Someone yelling during your backswing, fucking up your whole game
- Two big fat naked bikers in the woods off 17 having sex… (how am I supposed to CHIP with that going on, Doug?)
- Shotgunning beers on the 18th green
Anyway, I don't exactly feel bad for the guy (or girl; I don't discriminate) that got kicked out, but I definitely think that Justin Thomas is a little snowflake and can't deal with a fan rooting against him. And, apparently, this isn't the first time he's had people escorted off of the course for what he deems "unruly" behavior.
Thomas is only 24 years old. When I was that old, I WAS the obnoxious fan, so I kind of feel like he kicked me out of the tournament that I wasn't watching. Maybe that's why this bothered me so much. Good thing he doesn't play a real sport (calm down, triggered golf fan), where he'd have to deal with assholes yelling obscenities directly in his face while he's trying to compete.
I've got a rude awakening for him if he ever plays a video game; I've had an abnormal number of people say that they've banged my mom in the past week on Call of Duty. Guess I should report them and try to have them kicked out.


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LA PAZ, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed victory after voters approved a new leftist constitution, but opposition leaders said they also gained ground and are expected to work against some of the reforms.
Passed with about 60 percent support in a referendum on Sunday, the constitution aims to give Bolivia's indigenous majority more power, lets Morales run for re-election later this year and hands him tighter control over the economy.
Morales took power three years ago and is very popular among the poor and among Aymara, Quechua, Guarani and other indigenous groups who suffered centuries of discrimination in South America's poorest country.
"Now, excluded and marginalized people will have the same rights as everybody else," a triumphant Morales, 49, told supporters in front of the presidential palace in La Paz on Sunday night.
An Aymara Indian and former leader of coca-leaf farmers, Morales is Bolivia's first indigenous president and has followed his socialist allies, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, in pushing through major constitutional reforms.
He will now be able to run for re-election in December and is a clear favorite to win.
But the 60 percent "yes" vote projected in exit polls from Sunday's vote is lower than the 67 percent Morales won in a recall election last year, and his critics focused immediately on that narrower margin as they indicated they would seek to block some of the reforms called for in the new constitution.
"The 'no' vote has put the brakes on the fools who wanted to destroy our country," opposition leader Ruben Costas said.
Violent opposition protests in September killed about 20 people and forced Morales to water down some of the constitutional changes, including radical land reform and his original plan to seek several consecutive terms in office.
Even so, many mixed-race people in the fertile eastern lowlands rejected the charter and the "no" vote prevailed in four of Bolivia's nine provinces, according to the exit polls.
Morales has said Bolivia will need to pass about 100 laws in the next few years in order to implement most of the reforms laid out in the constitution, including the rules for the election of Supreme Court judges in a popular vote.
To do so, he will need to work with the opposition, which will in return push for greater autonomy for relatively wealthy eastern provinces, where Morales is not popular and where a European-descended or mixed-race elite dominates the economy.
The new constitution will give the Indian majority more seats in Congress and greater clout in the justice system. It also officially recognizes their pre-Columbian spiritual traditions and promotes their languages.
"The new constitution will ensure equality for all Bolivians," said Teresa Penaranda, a 49-year-old homemaker, carrying a colorful Aymara flag after she voted in the city of Cochabamba. (Additional reporting by Diego Ore in Cochabamba; Writing by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Kieran Murray)
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