Responding to an essay in the NY Times Sunday Book Review about Orthodox Jews in fiction, Sara Irvy of Nextbook.org says that fiction “is invention, after all, not a sociological inquiry or an educational primer. Readers turn to it to gain entry into other worlds, real and unreal. Unlike Orthodoxy, fiction encourages rule breaking, and [...]
I will admit I am a little biased (although the nursing staff agrees with me) but I think Ella is a remarkably beautiful baby. I mean look at the hair and and the adorable expressions. Click below for a few pictures to show you what I am talking about (BTW, that handomse guy with her [...]
Ella had a lot of hurdles to get over in her early life, but she proved up to the task. Thanks to the many prayers she made a remarkable recovery (the Doctors own words). Here are some of the milestone she has achieved so far: – 1/29/05 Ella is able to breathe on her own [...]
It is ironic that the last post made to this blog was about changes. It is ironic because I have just underwent one of the most life altering changes around: I have become a father. My first child, Ella Hope Holtsberry, was born this past Friday January 28 at 3:02 PM. To keep family and [...]
There’s a full volume on letters from the great poet T.S. Eliot which will not see the light of day while his widow lives. They may not see any light even after her departure to the afterlife. That’s a fact, not the plot of new mystery novel. Eliot died in 1965, and his wife “has [...]
This month’s featured designer at Fonts.com is Michael Harvey, who in 2001 co-founded an independent digital type foundry called Fine Fonts. Fonts.com makes available his relatively new font, “Mentor,” which Harvey describes as having “traces of Eric Gill and Reynolds Stone in the roman designs and just a hint of Hermann Zapf in the sans [...]
As noted below, Ella was born on Friday afternoon. For reasons that are still a little unclear Ella had a very low heartbeat. As a result she didn’t get enough oxygen. As soon as she was born she needed to be put on a respirator and taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This [...]