Sadly, we needed expensive studies and elected officials to tell us that texting while driving = bad. This report comes straight from the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious (hey, have I just quoted a Monty Python reference?). The conclusion is painfully self-evident. Do we really have to be told not to take our eyes off the road and look [...]
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 [...]
Finding this beloved book from my childhood remains a holy grail. I know it has been reprinted in paperback form, but what I really covet is the mid-century hardcover version, exactly like the one my mom checked out of the Gardner, Kansas public library over and over, to read over and over to my brothers and [...]
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 [...]
Despite the fervent arguments made by nurture-over-naturists in the 1970s, I think it’s clear to everyone now that yes, Virgil and Virginia, gender differences definitely do exist, and to deny this basic fact is to invite mockery from even the most liberal of your friends. Having been a girl in guy-land all my life, here is a [...]
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 [...]
That’s my beautiful niece Logan, age 13, who grabbed every spare minute during the family reunion to read Memoirs of a Geisha. She even sat in the car while everyone else went on a quick shopping trip so she could finish it. Logan highly recommends this book, as does my dad. And speaking of being [...]
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 [...]
Little kids run all the time. It’s their preferred pace. Around age 12, one study said, kids start slowing down. The upside? They help carry stuff! Here are the same two kids, Hugh and his godsister Hollis, along the same shoreline. They used to be so short. Now they’re so tall. There is nothing like time [...]
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. [...]
