“I have a certain amount of energy every day,” said Montreal writer and journalist Mireille Silcoff. “When I use it up, it’s not there anymore. So I need to be very parsimonious and prudent with it.” …Talking with the 41-year-old in her airy N.D.G. home filled with art and books, you would never guess energy was an issue; Silcoff is as effervescent an interview subject as you could hope for … Even though Mireille went to Bialik, I never had the pleasure of having her in any class … One point, on one hand, I believe that it showed a lack of both class and respect for her mother to send Mireille to a Jewish School with ham sandwiches which she was supposed to tell people it was turkey; on the other hand, it could really mean nothing …