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Oct, 2013
Bitch-snacked

Bitch-snacked. Derived from the term bitch-slapped. You know you’ve been bitch-snacked when someone points out that you’ve provided one of your kids with inadequately nutritious food.…

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Sep, 2013
Anatomy of a Sunday (or Why I am Bothered by Smug Bikers.)

If Sunday nights were the low points of my youth (school again tomorrow? really?), they have been quickly replaced by Sunday mornings (what on earth…

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Sep, 2013
A Dumber Sukkot (or Sukkot with Manuel)

It seems that Jews are not a people of convenience. This time of year some of us Jews find ourselves eating in flimsy outdoor huts.…

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22
Sep, 2013
Sunday night

I am on my last legs, as they say. Weekends are fun, action packed and thoroughly draining. Especially because, given the onslaught of Jewish holidays,…

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18
Sep, 2013
(Almost wordless Wednesday)

We found these in the garden today. The kids asked me what they are. “I don’t know what they are, but I know what they…

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17
Sep, 2013
Runners High

I am sure it’ll get old at some point. But instead of doing all the things I ought to be doing (unpacking, sorting, visiting Ikea),…

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16
Sep, 2013
Where have you gone Mrs…. Frisby?

We’ve been reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It’s not a book I ever read as a child, but lately I’ve been having…

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14
Sep, 2013
Fasting.

I am, by all accounts, a miserable faster. I like to spend my days in a continual state of grazing. Cut off from my day-long…

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11
Sep, 2013
Wordless Wednesday

My morning run. #iloveny

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10
Sep, 2013
Buggy

Oh, how I yearn to write pages about my thrilling return to New York! I could go on about the energy, the people, the diversity…

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