• About
  • Contact Me
  • Legal Stuff

From Hip to Housewife

...in two kids flat.

Follow Me:

Facebook Twitter RSS Pinterest Instagram
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Rants
  • Parenting
  • NY Theatre
  • Reviews
  • Tech

How My Dog Convinced me to Get Botox

Sep 20 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

cute dog pic

or How my dog drove me to get Botox.   In past years having my period at work meant I regularly employed the old tampon up your sleeve on the way to the rest room routine. But of late I take a different tack. In my dotage, I march towards the restroom twirling my tampon like a baton. Continue Reading

Fifty Signs I’m Turning 50 this Year

Dec 30 Posted by nancyjrab 14 Comments

The New Year is upon us once again.  And while you may think of it as 2015, I think of it as "the Year I'm going to turn 50." Fifty!! How did that happen?  Well, it took about fifty years.  Luckily, with centenarians the fastest growing age group in the US, I can still call myself middle aged.  But Continue Reading

Coming to NY to See a Show? Top 10 Things you need to know before you go.

Nov 18 Posted by nancyjrab 6 Comments

Theatre season in New York is in full swing.  New shows are opening, revivals are selling out.  (I'm desperate to see the well reviewed revivals of Side Show, and On The Town and super curious about Stalking the Bogeyman at New World Stages, bummed I missed Found at Atlantic Theatre Company, and SO Continue Reading

Crafting for Jews with Hershey’s

Apr 3 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

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

I Love my Spammy WordPress Followers

Jan 15 Posted by nancyjrab 4 Comments

I love vanity sizing. Why? I am not a size six.  Even on a good day, I'm a size 8. (And mostly, they're not good days) But in the world of Vanity Sizing, I can wear a six. I know it's bull.  I know I'm the same size in a 12 as I am in a 10 as I am in an 8 or a 6.  But I don't care.  I LOVE Continue Reading

Top Ten Things I Didn’t Miss by Not Going to CES 2014

Jan 14 Posted by nancyjrab 1 Comment

I didn't hit CES2014.  I don't think I missed anything. For the past several years, I have made the annual tech trek to CES in Las Vegas.  For the uninitiated, CES is the Consumer Electronics Show, once a trade show exclusively for electronic retailers to make their biggest yearly merchandise Continue Reading

Wordless Wednesday: My Bar Mitzvah Band Days

Aug 7 Posted by nancyjrab 6 Comments

Yes, it's true. In the late 80's I lived in Paris and made my living as a Bar Mitzvah band singer.  I sang in Hebrew, Yiddish, French, English and Arabic. Here's the proof.  Not long after this photo was taken, the guys in the band (a dentist, an accountant, and IT guy...) all started wearing gold Continue Reading

WeinerSpitzle

Jul 16 Posted by nancyjrab 4 Comments

  Hello, my name is Ashley, and I'll be your server this evening.  This summer, our chef has a season long special: WeinerSpitzle.  WeinerSpitzle is an only in NY combination of hubris, stupidity, perversion, and blatant disregard for the law.  We take a little bit of working class Continue Reading

Ryan Reynolds: You Just Can’t Fake That Kind of Authenticity

Jul 12 Posted by nancyjrab 4 Comments

Ryan Reynolds and cute kid reporter

Ryan Reynolds had a real conversation with a real kid and the media world went bananas. Early this week, I brought a pint-sized KidzVuz reporter to the Red Carpet for the premiere of Turbo.  Our ten year old first-timer interviewed Ryan Reynolds, Michelle Rodriguez, Luis Guzman, Ken Leong, race car Continue Reading

My Dog is Depressed

Jul 10 Posted by nancyjrab 3 Comments

cute dog pic

  The kids are at camp, and Bentley has been looking like this pretty much since they left. So sweet. Continue Reading

Next Page

What are you looking for?

Subscribe by Email

You know you want to read me all the time! Leave your email and hit subscribe and I'll email you every time there's a new post!

Join 21,209 other subscribers

Check out my other baby!

Shop Books by Me and Friends

Click Here to buy The Bigger The Better the Tighter the Sweater, which includes my essay about my boobs. (yes, really) Click Here to buy The Knitters Gift, which features my essay on the psycho-sexual effects of being a knitter. (sort of, kind of)

Categories

Recent Posts

  • #Me too? #Well Duh.
  • How My Dog Convinced me to Get Botox
  • Activism Boot Camp: Are High Schoolers our Hope for the Future?
  • Museum Hack: A Whole New Way to Go to the Museum
  • jimmyCASE: My Favorite New iPhone Case

Copyright © 2021 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in