Feed Me Bubbe Why doesn't everyone do this with their grandmother? Avrom and his bubbe in a charming series about her great looking food. Learn a
little yiddish while you're at it. O, yeah, there's videos here people...
posted by dozo
on Feb 16, 2007 -
15 comments
She had been sitting in her arm-chair, telling us a long, beautiful tale; and when it was finished, she said she was tired, and leaned her head back to sleep awhile. We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became quieter and calmer, and on her countenance beamed happiness and peace. It was as if lighted up with a ray of sunshine. She smiled once more, and then people said she was dead. [
In honor and memory of our mothers.]
Tons of
stories by Hans Christian Andersen, from the main site
Aesop Fables, and other cool stuff like
"The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum.
posted by sluglicker
on May 13, 2006 -
5 comments
Home is where the heart is. Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author of
Speed Tribes, among others, has a nostalgic piece in Time Asia (Aug. '03) recounting his heady youth in Tokyo alongside his thoughts on his ailing Japanese grandmother.
posted by gen
on Jul 9, 2004 -
5 comments
Capitalism to the extreme in Russia. A Russian Grandma was caught trying to sell her grandson for $90,000. No she wasn't selling him to some adoption agency so he could go to a 'caring family' somewhere in the west. She was selling him for his
organs. She even rips off her other son (the boy's uncle). His excuse, "
I wanted to buy a house and a new car and some clothes. It was my dream." I'm sure it was his nephew's dream as well to be sold for his organs.
posted by jay
on Nov 28, 2000 -
11 comments
