The following post is dedicated to the makers of children’s menus everywhere. I know I speak for both Jennifer and myself when I say “we miss you.” If parents had a dime for every double edge sword we encountered as we guided our children through the gauntlet of adolescence, we might have enough money to [...]
Last week as I sat in the doctor’s office waiting for Chase to be seen, my own throat burning just as much as his, I chatted with the nurse at the front desk about our potential diagnoses. I guessed out loud that we both had strep throat to which she replied: Probably. Its running rampant. [...]
Yesterday afternoon I was in the kitchen patiently stirring a bubbling cauldron of what would become part of Sunday dinner when Noah’s sense of urgency suddenly appeared beside me. I think children wait until you’re fully committed to the “stir constantly” part of the recipe before they NEED you. Stir. Stir. Stir. MOM!!! Stir. Stir. [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that you had your very first haircut and suddenly you were transformed from a baby whose soft loose strands flowed unbridled over your forehead to a little boy with blunt bangs that framed your sweet face. With a few snips of a stranger’s shears, you irrevocably aged and for the [...]
Those of you who follow me on Facebook and Twitter might know that I was nominated on Monday by 95.7 Ben FM radio station in Philadelphia to receive an award at their annual Woman of Week luncheon at the end of March. You might have even voted for me because I posted the link to [...]
If I was ever going to convert from Judaism to Christianity, it would be for the whole Heaven thing. A little known fact about Jews: We don’t really believe in focus on Heaven (or Hell for that matter). Rather, Jews focus on life on earth. Most of our readings suggest that life ends with physical [...]
It was a rare, lazy Saturday morning when Noah showed up at my bedside with a request. “Mom, can I make scrambled eggs?” My first reaction: “Absolutely not. You don’t know how to make scrambled eggs; it will be a mess of apocalyptic proportions; AND you will probably burn the entire house down in the [...]
Last weekend, I pulled out of our garage and ran smack into Dave’s car. Boom! The fact that I was going less than 5 miles per hour and backwards minimized the damage to just a large small dent that Dave was able to pop out. But scrape marks on both of our cars remain as a [...]
The dream is always the same. I am sitting in the stands in Penn’s Hutchinson Gymnasium watching a women’s gymnastics meet when suddenly my coach accosts me and tells me I’m next to compete on uneven bars. I try to resist because I am more than forty years old and can no longer touch my [...]
About a week ago one of my new creative friends, Lindsey Mead, wrote a really neat blog post she called “The Alphabet of Right Now” in which she assigned each letter of the alphabet to something relevant in her current life. Lindsey is a wonderful and prolific writer and I encourage you to check out [...]
