9
Oct, 2013

It sucked to be a Jew in America last week. First, the Pew Research Center came out with a survey of Jewish life and it

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7
Oct, 2013

On my constant quest to uncover the wonders of nature right here in NYC, I have encouraged the kids to go out and forage for

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5
Oct, 2013

Frances lost a tooth today. She has gotten far less dramatic about it. There are no more fainting spells and cold compresses. Still, we were

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1
Oct, 2013

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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29
Sep, 2013

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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22
Sep, 2013

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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16
Sep, 2013

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

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

My morning run. #iloveny

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8
Sep, 2013

Until this weekend my only (Jewish) New Year resolution was to do something about the pathetic state of affairs at our breakfast table. I can’t

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