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I like to say I was Jewish for eleven years. I was married in a synagogue and my children were named by a rabbi. Having a Jewish identity is a source of pride to them. Even though my husband got custody of — and excuse the double meaning — the Temple when we divorced, my history gave me the “street cred” to join a Jewish poker group. There are six of us in it and we have been meeting once...

I don’t see it as my business to tell other people what to do, but it is hard to be quiet when I notice that what needs to be done isn’t being done right and so sometimes I do put in my two cents whether it is appreciated or not. Like when I told my husband Johnny Bob that he was re-doing the roof on our shed all wrong – I spoke right up and yelled out, “you don’t know what in the hell...

May 12, 2011 ( ግንቦት 4 Ginbot 1, 2003 Ethiopian calendar) Women Building a Culture of Peace;Here we are, trying to imagine peace in a women‘s conference. The title says it all: we need to imagine peace, because unfortunately we do not have it yet. Maybe womankind will succeed where mankind has failed. My obsession for peace developed from what I consider a natural drive to live in...

The Alice Hornbaker Show wmkvfm.org on Internet WMKV 89.3 FM Cincinnati “Life After 50” column on air 9/26/11 ajhornbaker@yahoo.com Someone recently wrote to me that when mature adults in retirement stop taking risks, they die. A bit dramatic but the point is well taken. All of our lives from young to old, we should incorporate some risks into our lifestyles. Every mature...

There's something so exciting about waking up in a new year ... there are 365 days of unblemished promise ahead, 12 months of challenges -- some known, many not. Last night, I found myself thinking about New Year's Eve 2009, and wondering what big stories I'll be reminiscing about then.It was a remarkable 2008, and we've all seen the highlight reels. From the presidential election to the...