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The Last Disconnected Summer

Aug 14 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

Why an admitted tech addict mourns the loss of her kids’ tech free summers.   Every summer, for the past six years, my kids have been disconnected from the digital world for seven weeks straight while they swim and bike and canoe and do every land sport imaginable at sleepaway camp. But this Continue Reading

I Miss My Car

Oct 1 Posted by nancyjrab 3 Comments

In the annals of reality television, perhaps no show is as weird as My Strange Addiction, the show about people addicted to things like eating toilet paper, eating glass, licking their cats.  Really.  But one of the weirdest -- and one of the only episodes I've ever seen - featured a man who was Continue Reading

The Kids are at Camp, And EVERYBODY’s Happy

Jun 29 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

  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?

May 28 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

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

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

My Stressed Teens

Dec 6 Posted by nancyjrab 6 Comments

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

Nov 7 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

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

Oct 17 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

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

Aug 15 Posted by nancyjrab 10 Comments

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

Apr 15 Posted by nancyjrab 13 Comments

 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

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