Bossy recently took this photo — it’s the first house she can remember living in when she was just a couple of years old. It’s located in a Philadelphia neighborhood called Germantown, which is a coincidence because it was founded by Germans in the 1600s. The house is filled with apartments — the Bossy family…
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Ten-Word Tuesday: The Vote Edition
Bossy grew up in a politically active family at a time when the country was smack dab in a climate of upheaval and transition because that’s how it was when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the end. The first thing Bossy remembers about politics was in utero when she went knocking around some peace march or…
Ten-Word Tuesday: Let’s Play Mensch, Not A Mensch
The other day that was actually a week or maybe even months, Bossy’s mom described someone as a mensch. Bossy’s daughter, who has heard this word for all of the fourteen years of her life because she is a nice Jewish girl hold approximately half of the Jewish, responded, “What exactly is a mensch?” Now…