The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
It’s my birthday
And I’m going to see Idina Menzel’s new play, If/Then. Talk among yourselves. I have some celebratin’ to do.
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The Obamacare clusterfark
Reading about the reactions to Obamacare falling under its own weight leads me to this thought: Icarus has flown too close to the sun, and the wax holding together his wings is melting.
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Meimei’s newest thing
She likes to sleep leaning against my foot. Not ON my foot. Leaning against it. She is on my lap as I write this post, and she has just discovered my Star of David necklace. It appears we are in … Continue reading
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The anti-Israel administration
James Baker was not a friend to Israel, but the Reagan administration never tried to harm Israel the way that the Obama administration is. Susan Rice says that Benjamin Netanyahu just doesn’t understand the deal. Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Susan … Continue reading
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There will never be peace
As long as the Palestinians lionize murderers like this, there will never be peace between them and Israel. A sixteen-year-old Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier who was sleeping on a bus. The soldier died of his wounds. Why did the … Continue reading
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She’s cute and she knows it
Got a great shot of Meimei yesterday. She’s just getting more and more beautiful. I won the kitty lotto, all right. She and Tig are playing well together, too. They make me laugh and laugh.
It’s eleven twelve thirteen!
At least, for those of us who display the dates this way: 11/12/13 Cool.
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Tuesday, briefly
This Pope is Teh Awesome: He fires bishops for wrongdoing. He foregoes many of the trappings of the Popehood. He embraced a severely disfigured man and prayed with him. And now he says that Jews are the big brothers of … Continue reading
Honoring the veterans
Happy Veterans Day! Here’s a link to some deals for veterans at various local and nationwide chains. Now I’m going to get back to work. I work for a company with a large number of veterans. The place is a … Continue reading
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It’s not feminism that’s killing the Jewish Conservative movement
Avi Woolf went on an anti-feminist rant that has nothing to do with Conservative Judaism, but hey–he gets in a lot of cracks about feminists and pretends he knows something about Conservative Judaism while he’s at it. And yet, I … Continue reading
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Two readings this month for The Catmage Chronicles
I’m having a reading and book-signing at the Richmond JCC tomorrow, and will be doing the same again in a couple of weeks at Or Ami’s book fair. It will be nice to see how my own Jewish community likes … Continue reading
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Caturday
Some more Meimei pictures. First, Meimei the beauty Next, Tig and Meimei playing. They’re getting along great. Last, this is becoming her favorite place to sleep.
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The Arafat polonium blood libel
Here we go again. Did you know that Palestinians are blaming Israel for Arafat’s death? Yes. Palestinians blame Israel for Arafat’s poisoning Really. Palestinians: Israel Only Suspect In Arafat Death Come on. Israel Accused of Killing Arafat by Palestinian Investigators … Continue reading
If you can’t laugh at terrorists…
I know he’s a terrorist. I know he’s a scumbag who ordered an attack on a teenage girl for having the audacity to go to schol. I know he is willing to slaughter many thousands of innocents for no reason … Continue reading
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Wednesday briefs
Yeah, but watch out for the knife in the back: Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom says everyone wants to hug Israel now that it’s going to be a natural gas exporter. See title. I know that the rules of the … Continue reading
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