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Category Archives: Food
December 28, 2015
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of Jake’s passing. Last year on this day, I wrote a long post about the first year, and what lessons I learned. I don’t have much new to report this year. My cousin is here … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Food, Friends and Family, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Observations, Photography, Progress
Tagged Grief, grievingdad, lessons, movingforward, new normal, newyears
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A Darkened Hanukkah
Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem around 165 BCE. The Romans had sacked and looted the temple, and a band of Jewish guerrillas lead by Judah Maccabee prevailed over the … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit
Tagged candles, dreidel, hanukkah, holidays, latkes, light, menorah
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Message from Manila
In August, we sold our 100 year-old Detroit Jewel gas cooking stove. My dad bought it at a swap meet in 1972 and not quite knowing what to do with it, gave it to me. When I got it, it … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Food, Friends and Family, Healing, Jake Colman, Kindness, Support, Tragedy
Tagged baking, compassion, deathofason, family, friendship, Grief, isaiah, manila, prophets, stove, thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving
Well, here it is. Thursday. Thanksgiving. One day before another 28th. Wouldn’t it have been ironic if … well, anyway. This year it feels like someone else’s holiday. Oh yes, I have much to be grateful for. I have a … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Jake Colman, Memory
Tagged deathofason, family, friends, gratitude, grievingparents, hanukkah, latkes, Sorrow, thankful, thanksgiving
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My New Blog
Hot Eddie’s is my new blog dedicated to what’s hot in the kitchen and everywhere else. After many months of chronicling my personal journey through grief at here at The Infinite Fountain, I thought I’d start a blog with a … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman
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Sukkot
We are in the midst of celebrating the 7-day holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish “Harvest Festival”. After all the fasting and atoning and spiritual soul-searching we are supposed to do during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sukkot which comes just … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory
Tagged beauty, grievingdad, holiday, sukkot, visitors
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The New Header Photo
Jake made this photo of a carousel, taken in London’s Covent Garden, during our last trip to England. It was 2006, the year of our family adventure in Italy. Jake attended a month-long cooking and language school in Bologna and we … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Photography
Tagged carousel, cornishpasties, Coventgarden, England, missingmyson, photography, travel
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Jake’s Birthday
Yesterday was Jake’s 25th birthday. Somehow we made it through without imploding, vaporizing, or disintegrating. We went for juicy pastrami sandwiches dripping with coleslaw on fresh crusty rye for lunch at Langer’s, an old-school deli in downtown LA. Jake would … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Daily Ramblings, Food, Friends and Family, Healing, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory
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Two Birthdays
One of the perks of being Jewish is that you have two birthdays. The calendar we are most familiar, actually called the Gregorian calendar, is a solar-based calendar and divides each year up into the familiar 365 days, 52 weeks, … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Daily Ramblings, Food, Friends and Family, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Sadness
Tagged grievingparents, jake'sbirthday, parsha, torah
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Father’s Day, 2014
Yesterday was another first. My first Father’s Day without my son. To rephrase that, my first Father’s Day without my son alive. As days go, it was okay, difficult but okay. I dedicated the day to my son, Jake, who … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Daily Ramblings, Food, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Memory
Tagged fathersday, grievingfather, jazz, lossofason, music
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