Beckie Loewenstein

My story " A sweet start " about my first Rosh Hashanah is published in The Boston Globe Magazine on October 18, 2009.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Kyoto-Boston sister city relationship, Mr. Keiichi Hanada, hair stylist of Kyoto, demonstrated traditional Japanese hair styling at the Japan Society of Boston center at the Showa Boston Institute on October 14, 2009. Hanada demonstrated ukiyo or "pictures of the floating world" hairstyle of Japan's Edo period (1603-1867), saying this "time of peace" allowed ornate hairstyles to develop. Ms. Michiko Imai , a master calligrapher at Kaji Aso Studio in Boston, modeled in formal kimono. Styling her long black hair, Hanada used boxwood combs and white thread made of paper called gomu to fold hair and attach hair extensions. Lastly, he placed kanzashai with amber carvings, flowers, and peace signs. Michiko described the style as "heavy." Fashion in the Edo period represented a woman's social and marital status and wealth. Lipstick made of Beni flower was expensive; painting layers until the red changed to green r

peas in a pod cuddle side by side. one pea falls out of the pod into a water droplet and sprouts, green through and through. another pea stuck in the pod dries out. all that nourishing potential now locks up inside the lonely pod.

As a board member of the MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, John Barry, influenza historian and author of The Great Influenza, discussed how the "mild" H1N1 influenza could be just the first wave of a pandemic at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 5, 2009.