I think Dave and I both had the good sense to see it coming. By “it” I mean the palpable tension that arises about this time each summer when Dave is not working and I am slaving away. I know all about teachers and summer. I come from a family of teachers who enjoyed their [...]
Please read the following disclaimers before going any further: 1) I don’t condone violence against children. I don’t believe in leashing children. 2) I know nothing about this mother and her parenting capabilities (or lack thereof). 3) I am operating under the assumption that the child was not badly hurt and is not the victim [...]
It’s been a full week since we dropped Noah and Chase off at camp. We are not permitted to speak to them directly while they are there. The policy is a wise one. Can you imagine 400 phone calls each week from worried Jewish mothers to their children? Oy vey is right. But do [...]
“The good news is that this is the absolute worst thing that can happen.” The quote, which was uttered by my training partner Mo to Liz and me as Dave drove the three of us down to the SheRox Triathlon yesterday morning in the pouring rain, will forever live in infamy. It bore repeating several [...]
As I sat across the dinner table from Dave on Tuesday night I wondered if perhaps we should eat naked. After all we deposited the boys at sleep away camp earlier that morning and it was just the two of us, staring at each other thinking about what to say. This was the moment we [...]
Dear Camp H Counselors: Today I am turning my children over to your care for the next 3 weeks and 6 days (This sounds better to me than a month.) I consider myself to be a sane individual, able to dispense prudent advice to other parents faced with fears similar to my own. Yet, when [...]
No doubt many MoB readers read the coverage this week on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, a prominent black scholar at Harvard University. To summarize, Gates was trying to get into his own Cambridge home through a broken door when the neighbors called the cops thinking the home was being burglarized. When the [...]
I know what you are going to say. You don’t make a Jewish mother crazy. It’s in the Torah that we should be this way. Really. Truth be told, all mothers carry with them their own personal versions of insanity. We Jews tend to be a bit control freaky. Take away our control, you take [...]
On Friday, I asked my boss if he had any big plans for the weekend. He shared with me that it was his wife’s birthday and one of her presents was that she gets to take him shopping for clothes. I have always suspected these people were totally cool characters, but now I know for sure. [...]
About a year and a half ago, Dave and I attended a silent charity auction for our local library. (Full disclosure: Jennifer was one of the co-chairs). I am sure many of you have been to one of these events. And those of you who are like me have a grand old time getting happily [...]
