MAYBE IT'S ME
tekijä: Eileen Pollack
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SALSA WITH DEATH
SALSA WITH DEATH
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"Am I the crazy one, or is everyone else nuts?" is a question all women have asked themselves. But I hope my podcast will resonate with anyone who is engaged in the very human search for connection, love, acceptance, and self-respect. I will air a new podcast every other week, starting with the essays from my critically acclaimed collection Maybe It's Me, then moving on to newer musings about how to keep learning and growing even as we age. Topics we will cover: growing up female; dating; searching for love; raising a child; uncovering family secrets; living a Jewish life; remembering the Borscht Belt; aging; facing death; laughing at life's absurdities.
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Uusimmat 20 jaksoa 35 jaksosta
- SALSA WITH DEATH · 38 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 19Is an older woman who travels alone to a foreign country brave and independent ... or is she nuts? Come with me to Mexico, swim with me through some pretty scary underground…
- SKIING THROUGH SOUR CREAM · 20 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 18How and where did most Jews learn to ski and skate and play tennis and golf? Not at the country clubs and resorts that banned them. Who was the first American Jew to earn Olympic…
- LOVE IS ALL AROUND · 24 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 17Bingeing on the old Mary Tyler Moore Show took me back to my own first job--like Mary, I worked in a newsroom--and led me to ponder what we've lost and gained in decreeing that…
- POR QUE, PORQUOI, WARUM ... · 24 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 16Were you forced to take a foreign language in high school? Do you remember sitting through hour after hour of language lab? So many people now speak English, why should we…
- GET A DOG, or REST IN PEACH · 18 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 15I really, really want a dog. Why don't I get one? If I do, will you pay for all its vet bills? Does everyone need to be a doggie parent to a furbaby? Can't you just own a mutt?
- HOW NOT TO BE ELECTROCUTED BY YOUR TOILET · 20 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 14Have you ever had a hard time convincing someone that something is wrong with your car, your house, or your computer and they really do need to fix it? Of course you have. I…
- THE "C" WORD · 15 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 13Believe it or not, I've been told I had cancer SIX TIMES. Luckily, five of those diagnoses were wrong. But why were so many doctors so eager to tell me that I had a fatal…
- BREATHING, TONGUING, FINGERING, or, MUSICALITY · 30 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 12Did you play a musical instrument in elementary school? Did you give it up? Why? Do you wish you had continued taking lessons? Is it ever too late to try again?
- SOUNDPROOF · 13 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 11Are you--or someone you love--in denial about how much you're missing because you can't hear most of what other people are saying? Why are you so reluctant to make a trip to…
- DATING LEONARD · 16 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 10What's it like dating the star of a reality TV show like The Golden Bachelor? Is there any hope for a woman in her sixties or seventies who still wants to find love before she…
- PAJAMAS · 28 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 9Did you know that bridge was once the most popular game in America? EVERYBODY played. And now? Hardly anyone. So, why did I become obsessed with playing bridge? Why do any of us…
- WHO MISSES THE BORSCHT BELT? · 18 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 8Why on earth would anyone miss the funky Catskills hotels and bungalow colonies where Jews vacationed for most of the 20th century because they weren't allowed to check into most…
- STAYIN' ALIVE · 14 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 7Are you spending a ridiculous proportion of your time in doctors' offices, at the gym, or in various beauty and wellness establishments? If we devote sall our time and energy to…
- LIFE DRAWING · 28 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 6I signed up for what I assumed would be a very basic art class, strictly for beginners, but there on the stage stood a very handsome, entirely nude man I was expected to draw…
- WHY MY MOTHER WAS DEBBIE DOWNER · 15 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 5My mother saw disaster lurking everywhere. Why did I take so many decades to believe she--and so many women like her--had a lot of reasons to be afraid, not only for herself but…
- ERECTOR SET · 21 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 4What happens when you finally get the toy of your dreams ... when you're in your sixties? Will an Erector set help your little girl become a physicist? What do we really want…
- ELDERLY · 32 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 3We're forgetting just how horrifying it was to live through the covid pandemic, especially if you were elderly, disabled, or otherwise at risk. We're forgetting how many loved…
- THE TRUE GAME OF TENNIS · 34 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 2Why have I battled dybbuks, injuries, sexism, and the infirmities of age to continue playing competitive tennis? What has Title IX meant to women of my generation? And, if you'll…
- SKYDYING · 24 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 1I've been terrified of dying all my life. Now that I'm in my sixties, I'm even more frightened. So why on earth would I decide to jump out of an airplane?
- HOW SWEET THE SOUND · 33 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 16Since my earliest years, I've been told I couldn't catch a tune in a gallon bucket. Nothing scared me more than singing in front of another human being, let alone an audience…
