Me: “What’s that in your hands?”
He: “I made a spider at school today, look!”
She: “He is really afraid of spiders.”
He: “No I’m not”
She: “Yes you are!”
He: “No I’m not!!!”
She talking to me: “Trust me, he is.”

“I’m involved in an organization which hands out food to homeless people.”
“What did you learn from that experience?”
“That just because you are poor doesn’t mean it’s easy to accept charity. Some of the homeless I have met on the street would rather turn down a food package than going through the humiliation of accepting a free meal.”

“She is very protective of her younger brother.”
“How is she protective of him?”
“Sometimes small items are lying around the house. she collects them in her pocket so he won’t swallow them while crawling on the ground.”

“This was considered a Jewish neighborhood before the war. Most people who lived here were deported to the camps and never returned. During the war their houses were plundered and the neighborhood was completely neglected. Those were very tragic times. When I bought a house here in the 60’s you could still feel it in the atmosphere. ”

“I like learning about new cultures. It’s a way of getting an answer to the ‘why?’. When you know the ‘why?’ suddenly strangers are not so strange anymore.”