In the Christian
Science Monitor:
(click on the title to view the article)
Note - these stories are on the Monitor Archive website, and I
encourage people to go them there so that the Monitor knows they
are being read.
Since in 2018 the Monitor put up a paywall (you can still read a
limited number for free), I'm going to provide a second link, to a
local copy
(the online copy may have pictures, relevant links, etc., that are
not on the local copy). This is a change "in progress".
Letter to the editor, by Eunice
Ordman, October 30, 2006
1 January 22, 2002 A
Vietnamese New Year in Memphis Local copy
2 Dec 26,
2002
Gamal Abdel Nasser to the Rescue
Local Copy
3 January 2, 2003 A
Communist Under Every Bed
Local
copy
4 January 22, 2003 The
integration of the Boyds PTA
Local Copy
5 February 3, 2003 Mom's
Prayer Meetings (about PTA and integration) Local Copy
6 February 12, 2003 How a
famous musician learned a new tune (Keter Betts) Local Copy
7 February 21, 2003 George
Washington
ist gestorben (is dead) Local
Copy
8 February 27, 2003 Arrested
by the Turkish Police, with Tefillin Local Copy
9 March 14, 2003 A
Catholic Dispensation for Purim
Local Copy
10 March 24, 2003 Our Game
Went Awry with the FBI (Camp David)
Local Copy
11 April 10,
2003 Why I
learned to speak Chinese (a little bit) Local
Copy
12 April 23,
2003 A beard
that a mother could love, at last
Local Copy
13 May 1,
2003 Funny
Hats topped my teaching career
Local
Copy
14 May 5,
2003 On Making
Muslim Outsiders, Insiders
Local
Copy
15 May 14,
2003 Navy
cowboys, pilot-whale priests, and other odd jobs
Local Copy
16 May 22,
2002 A
blue-capped barbarian untangles a speech problem
Local Copy
17 June 26,
2003 Truth not
yet, and Truth gone by
Local
Copy
18 July 14,
2003 The
wisdom of the ages travels well, too
Local Copy
19 July 28,
2003 On
knowing someone who knows someone (Conspiracies) Local Copy
20 August 18, 2003 My
family's old habits and the new Boy Scout
Local Copy
21 August 28, 2003 Campfires
and
other things that kids notice much later
Local
Copy
22 Sepember 22, 2003
Similar attitudes at higher altitudes
Local
Copy
23 October 9, 2003 The
time my Jewish mother influenced the Pope.
Local Copy
24 October 15, 2003 How
tenure denial helped my career
Local Copy
25 October 31, 2003 My father
succeeded by the process of elimination
Local
Copy
26 November 7, 2003 Speaking
of Louisville....
Local
Copy
27 December 29, 2003 Untraditional,
but
an heirloom nevertheless
Local
Copy
28 February 5, 2004 There’s
always a first time
Local
Copy
29 February 25, 2004 A
town by any other name would be less confusing Local
Copy
30 April 30, 2004 There
is profit in being a foreign prophet
Local Copy
31 May 17, 2004
Merci.
Oncle Picsou (Thanks, Uncle Scrooge) Local
Copy
32 August 6, 2004 When
skunks and bears go to town
Local
Copy
33 August 26, 2004
Sometimes childish logic makes sense
34 September 20, 2004 The
Adventures of my Mother, The Music Woman
35 November 14, 2005 Getting
lost can be fun (in the the subway in Kiev )
Local
Copy
36 April 29, 2015 How I discovered what’s in a name (one pleasure of
being an author)
Local copy
37 July 1, 2015
Making myself understood (needing
foreign languages)
(I'm usually very happy with how the Monitor edits my
essays. But they put a nice cartoon with this one and
as a result
edited out the names of some friends. So the unedited version is
at A
Language I never expected to need )
38 October 21, 2015 Hello,
Operator, I have a Question
(Experiences with telephones, and telephone operators)
39 December 2, 2015 The
Road from Damascus (Experiences with
immigrants)
40 April 13, 2016, Of
comic books and Canaletto About
paintings in the Polish Royal Palace Local
Copy
41 August 3, 2016 Memorable
Fish I've been given Why I once
needed to mail some fish from Memphis to Nairobi
42 April 12, 2017
In new situations, I sing an old song
Would you believe, an essay for ANZAC Day?
43 December 6, 2017 Ill-defined
Boundaries that are Set in Stone.
44 March 13, 2019. Heavenly
Help for the Working Dog
In the Hebrew Watchman, a weekly newspaper in Memphis,
TN