Yesterday while standing outside of my daughter’s school I saw a women walking out of the school with a small boy. She looked down at him and asked,” So how many candles do Jews light?” I had this funny feeling that I was about to witness an anti-Semitic joke, but the boy looked up at her and explained the menorah.

Today they are forecasting high wind warnings and storm warnings, urging people to be prepared for downed trees, power outages, etc.

The news in general freaks me out so I seldom watch it, for good reason. Today if I sat inside staring at the TV I would surely be convinced that our whole house is going to blow away sometime today, maybe starting at 3:00, 8:00 or midnight. My inner panic monster tells me that I shouldn’t have taken the kids to school today and we should all be huddled together surrounded by extra water, toilet paper, flashlights, batteries, canned goods and a rifle.

I am not watching the news anymore today.