This is a post from last year that I thought I'd put up again, as yesterday, my kids left again for summer camp. This year, despite still agreeing with everything I wrote here, I had a harder time saying goodbye to my kids, and was weepy much of the day. But photos of the kids having fun Continue Reading
Hey New York! Do you know your zone?
If you live in NYC, it's hard to avoid the bus stop ads telling us all that "call grandma" is NOT an emergency plan. And if you've lived here for any length of time, you've lived through enough disasters -- both man-made and natural - that you know you really do need a plan. Really. Well, I'm Continue Reading
Crafting for Jews with Hershey’s
On Purim, Jews celebrate Persians trying (but not succeeding) to kill us, on Channukah, we commemorate how the Greeks tried (and failed) to kill us, and on Passover, we celebrate escaping being killed by the Egyptians. All this, Shalom Auslander points out in his novel, Foreskin's Lament. And all Continue Reading
My Stressed Teens
Being a teen is stressful. There's all that homework. All that uncertainty about your social status. At least teens are sure of one thing: their parents know NOTHING, nothing at all. Well, CNN came to my apartment to talk to my family about stress. I guess because, well, we're stressed. Continue Reading
Throwback Thursday: Grandma and Pop’s 50th Anniversary
My Grandparents celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversary and the Pecoho country club - long long gone. My parents had moved that same day, while I stayed with my aunt. But they don't look exhausted at all. Continue Reading
Throwback Thursday
That's me on the bottom. The little head. When you're the third child, there ain't a whole lotta pictures gettin' took! Continue Reading
Child Free Summer
Forget the child-free v. having kids debate: Sleepaway Camp gives me the best of both worlds. I’ve always said that the difference between how I love my children, and how I love anyone else in the world is this: if a Mack Truck were careening down the highway headed for either of my kids, I would Continue Reading
Rhumba Through Life: To My Kids on Their B’nai Mitzvah
My children became B'nai Mitzvah this weekend. It was a wonderful event. So happy and filled with family and friends. And I was so proud of my kids. Qvelling, as my people say. A lot of people have already asked for a copy of the speech I gave to my kids. So here it is. Continue Reading
KidzVuz FashionTweenStas Event
The Sunday before Thanksgiving, KidzVuz hosted our fifth event -- but by far our biggest one! It was FashionTweenStas: Get your Girl On. 100 tween girls (yes, I am insane!) and their moms (less insane) in NYC for a fashionable, fabulous, and fun day filled with all kind of great stuff for the Continue Reading
Why You Need to Talk to Your Tweens About Internet Porn
Last week, I wrote about how I got to teach my daughter a lesson about real life and the online world when she got into a bit of virtual trouble. This week, I'm writing about acting pre-emptively. Because, well, watch this: The internet is for porn The internet is for porn, Why you think the net Continue Reading