Rosalie Harman:  

Life I retired from my job as a social worker over ten years ago. My mother passed away on March 23,2008.I had devoted many years to taking care of her,and I had a difficult time adjusting to her . I am now a grandmother to two beautiful boys.This is the great joy of my life. My daughter is a lawyer and her husband is a video supervisor and special effects artist for se movies filmed in Louisiana.My daughter has many abilities and uses them we'll. and a very talented song writergraduated from Cornell University Law School.She took a job in New Orleans . My daughter passed the Louisiana Bar Exam and was sworn in on Tuesday morning October 14,2008. I got an opportunity to see her represent clients in court.I recently visited New Orleans and saw that there are many problems that need to be addressed because of Katrina and the oil spill. If you go twoards Missippi you can see how big Lake Pontetrain is and how that Lake could have caused so much damage. You can still see the damage caused by the hurricane. I also visited after the Oil spill and was fearful of eating the seafood. What a shame, because the seafood is one of the best cuisines I have ever eaten. I have become a lot more political since the war started in Iraq, and anti labor sentiment ahas arisen I am very interested in important political events and writing to my current congressmen and senators about my concerns about the economy and the war I have also participated in some demonstrations..I am very concerned about Dafur and the radiation leak in Japan.It seems that we just don`t learn from history.I was happy, fearful and cynical when I heard the news about Osama Bin Laden. I hope it doesn`t take us down a more dangerous path.Most recently,I became a grandmother on August 27,2012 to a beautiful grandson Elijah Malachai. I am so in love with him. I am very involved in the performing arts. I was in a community theatre production of "Annie" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.More recently the theatre group did a revue including songs from Tony Award Shows. I participated in "Everybody ought to have a maid." and some of the big production numbers. I also sing with a number of choral groups. I was very proud to participate in a Yiddish "Gilbert and Sullivan " production of the"Pirates of Penzance". I played a Viking in a play written by one of my fellow actors in the Community Theatre.That play was chosen by Samuel French to be performed as part of a festival. I Participated in the performance. I also recently did spotlighting for my community theatre group. It was a first for me. I continue to sing with a folk singing group. I just finished performing with the Folksbeine Outreach Theatre where we did a tribute to Goldfaden, a major Yiddish composer.I havePerformed with The Yiddish group and the Triangle Fire coalition in the 100th anniverary of the Triangle Fire and I represented the woman "Ida Jukovsky" who was only 19 years old when she died. We will marched to some of the homes of the women, and there was a commemorative ceremony at the Eldrige Street Synagogoue.. Friends of mine stated that the ceremony in the synagogue was very moving. I believe that we can`t allow the latest turn of events in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, California , New Jersey, and New York to take us back 100 years. One of my nieces finished working in Izmir, Turkey teaching English as a Second Language. She had worked in Japan the year before. She is now working in Maryland My other niece travels all o...Expand for more