Ari at 2-plus Weeks (Boston, MA, January 2008)

Fisher Family Dogs

This is a post by guestblogger Dora.

The Fishers are dog people. There have been many beloved dogs in our families over the generations. Here are the dogs we are delighted to have now.

This is Mickey who belongs to Josh and Elizabeth. He is a Havanese, and is almost two years old.


likes: cuddling, jumping through hoops, destroying things.
dislikes: being left alone, his harness.


Mickey is very smart, he knows the names of his toys and the names of people. If you say "Mickey! Bring ELIZABETH your KONG!" he can do it.

This is Harper, she is the newest addition to Fisher family dogs:



Harper is only six months old and belongs to David, Allison and Ari. She is a black lab mix.
Likes: going for walks to the park, chewing on rawhide, and jumping up on people.



Allison says that despite how puppy-like and playful she is, she is very gentle with Ari. What a good dog!


And finally, this is Otis. Otis is a three and a half year old cocker spaniel who belongs to Dora and Norman (Otis has been a Fisher since he was just under 1 year old).



Otis likes: attention, when you do stretches on a yoga mat, long walks, and smelling your food.
Dislikes: the vacuum cleaner, the yellow dogs next door (grr), when people go to the backyard without him, getting wet.


For a bonus round: Otis and Mickey are very good friends. When they visit each other, they play and play and play, and spend the overnights waiting anxiously by their bedroom doors until the moment they can be together again. Neither of them have met Harper yet, but when they do I'm sure they will all get along too.

Family Additions (Boston, Miami Beach and Queens, 2006-2009)

With the two older members of our closest family facing great health challenges (to say the least), it's been nice to reflect on the three unambiguously wonderful additions it has had in the past few years.

Here, stolen without permission from Allison's Facebook profile pictures, are our daughter-in-law, Allison, and our grandson, Ari:



Allison and our (not yet) son-in-law, Norman, from Christmas 2006:



And, one of my all-time favorite photos, from Dora and Norman's wedding (stolen without permission from Dora), when Norman officially became part of the family:

Brothers and Brothers-in-Law (Bronx and Queens, NY, Jan 1954 and Oct 2008)

When I saw this picture in our scanned collection, I was immediately reminded of the picture below. The one above goes with my post about Betty and Annie and my parents' two families; it is from Betty and George's wedding. L-to-R are George, the groom; Bud, Betty's older brother; my father, B&G's brother-in-law; and Stretch, Betty's best friend's just-married husband, now her brother-in-law, sort of. Since Betty lived with us for several years, until not long before she was married, she was close to all four of these men.


From Dora and Norman's wedding, L-to-R, Norman; his older brother Steve; Dave; and Norman's younger brother Ryan. (Another picture stolen from Dora without permission.)

So Blackmail Me (various places and times)

Today is Sunday, Passover, and Easter.


Woodbridge, CT, probably 1984.


Probably Colonie, NY, around 1979 (we went to seders at Sam & Sue's for many years when our kids were young). A couple of years ago, at the Bas Mitzvahs of my cousins Lauren and Lizzie, I was assigned to hold the Torah scrolls. Ours kids tried to grab a photo of this, claiming they were going to blackmail me with it. This is the only way to deal with blackmail!


Bronx, NY, around 1951. With Willa (who was 5 years older than me).


Plainsboro, NJ, April 2006. Stolen from Dora without permission (as is the next one).


Member of lost tribe chomping on matzoh. Picture of Lizzie and Lauren in the background.


Jerusalem, Nov 1999. Jesus' tomb, place of the resurrection, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcre. Picture taken from the Hill of Calvary. Elizabeth and I visited in 1999, when I had a conference in Haifa.


Philippine pilgrims walking the stations of the cross.

Elizabeth, Dora, Harry, Norman (Miami, FL Feb 2009)

Harry entering his apartment. Hope he goes back today or tomorrow.