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Family:
An Electrifying
Family A bit of how my wife Eunice got to be the way
she is.
How Arnold Ordman
got his name. New immigrants can have difficulties
with the system.
Closing the
Whorehouse A not uncommon early business
practice causes problems.
The Most
Memorable Role Evelyn Ordman embarks upon a
career in the Theatre
Evelyn vs. the
National Bureau of Standards Evelyn
interests NBS in Children's theater.
An Adventure in
Arabia During the Gulf War, my brother gets
decorated and court-martialed
The Fish Heard Round the World
On
the odd ways gefillte fish has travelled...
My Grandmother's Gun
Which
didn't fire, but did do the job
Period Pieces:
The Musical Elks
Jewish
immigrants around 1920 struggle to become Americans.
Davey Crockett in
a Jewish Drugstore. ...and still working at it in the
1950's.
One Under Every
Bed A seven-year old encounters Howdy
Doody and Joe McCarthy.
The Invasion of
Camp David A parlor game leads in unexpected
directions.
Integration comes to
the Boyds PTA A courageous black in
1950's-1960's Maryland.
The Turkish Police
Story Edward is suspected of drug running by the
Turkish Police.
Nasser to the
Rescue A young Jew wanders into the wrong
part of Palestine.
A Litvak visits
Galicia An adventure in the Museum of
Western Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
George Washington is Dead
Another
1920's Peabody story
The Cloak-Makers Union
A humorous song recalled by my father
Ending the epidemic[2020]. A
period piece about events of 2020: who is it that gets sick?
Not quite religion...
Not about
Samson and Delilah But about
Samson's mother, with a reference to my late wife Eunice
A Rather Difficult
Youth A bit of
obscure Church History with a surprise ending.
The Maccabees
Not the Chanukah story your father told you
A Tale of the
Chinese Jews ... and of the
accuracy of the Biblical text.
The Greatly
Reduced Story Some revelations are not
meant to be shared.
If Jesus had a
credit card
A somewhat strange essay on economics of the Late Roman Empire.
Father, Son, and Distilled Spirits
One
attempt to save my soul, that failed.
A Church on Every Corner
Foreigners bewildered by religions in the
United States
A Sermon for Palm Sunday
In church, I quibble with the pastor over a
Hebrew word
Installing a Pastor
An essay in praise of (defrocked)
Rev. Maurice McCracken
The Polish Cook
An elderly Polish cook teaches graduate
students some Talmud
The Messiah and the two tailors
How
will the Messiah affect the tailor business?
Shankara and the Voice of God
Do you recognize a divine message when you hear it?
Four Ways God Created Man
A valuable lesson from a Muslim creationist
Looking
for Saint Philip Neri
Traveling in Bolivia, and experiencing what might be a
miracle
The Gurney Pusher
He had religious objections to taking my wife to the morgue
Travel
Looking
for Saint Philip Neri
Traveling in Bolivia, and experiencing what might be a
miracle
Bhutan
(long pictorial essay rather than a story, slow to load) late in
this, we fall into a fertility festival
Cuba
(long essay, rather than
a story)
Faeroe
Islands (long pictorial essay, with a couple of
stories embedded in it)
Getting Lost
in Kiev (Ukraine)
items from Cambodia
and Thailand
A Vietnamese New
Year in Memphis Edward and Eunice show up at the
wrong, or right, party.
A Visit to Africa
A
1996 visit to Malawi, remarks on ecology, economics, and
democracy.
A few little
kid stories Some short stories of children's
views on how the world is organized.
Ann Landers
When
a net search for "Edward Ordman" and "Jesus Christ" produced one
hit.
Is sudoku (or maze-making) mathematics?
An
elementary essay with a bit of math...
Mourning lost museums
They
get looted in Baghdad, or revised in Berlin.
Isosceles A
fantasy, suffering from too much mathematics
Why does a soccer ball have twelve
pentagons? Real, not facetious, mathematics
Thoughts for late October 2020
A memoir written at a time of political and health crisis
Tales of Kenyon College:
Philander's Well
College
students demonstrate to preserve a pothole in the road
Otton
Nikodym A fond memory of a
college teacher noted for his research
The Village
Constable is Deposed Rural students
try to keep up with the revolution of the 1960's
The Night the
Tree Caught Fire Further adventures
of the deposed constable
Memories of Berkeley in the late 1960's
Tale of a Sea Lion
Pieced together from news reports I read
A picture taken at Edward's retirement party at the University of Memphis, May 2001. Edward is posing as chairman of the Committee on Funny Hats, whose members include the (acting) University President, Associate Provost, Department Chair, CS Section head, and other distinguished members of the faculty.
The story behind the picture is published as Funny
Hats Topped my Teaching Career