Author: Judy Schwartz Haley

Dear Gem – Month 3

You found your voice this month. It started with little coos, sweet little ooohs and aahs. Every once in a while you would giggle or laugh or even squeal. Then in the past couple weeks you really took off. The vowel sounds are studded with consonants. Complex "words" with multiple syllables, each syllable turning on [...]

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2009 Seattle Iranian Festival

It's hard to party when your heart is with people dying on the street on the other side of the world.  Harder still for Seattle's Iranian-American community, with family members caught up in the in the fight for their rights, freedom, and even their lives in Iran. Yet party is just what we did today [...]

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It’s SO Not Fair!

Since I'm the only body in this house that actually eats chocolate chip cookies, I learned long ago that it's actually better for me to buy the pre-made dough, than to make them from scratch. Why? Because I eat as many as I make.  I have no self-control. I can, however, pull out a package [...]

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