Four hours to Shabbos and the oven is kaput. Crud.

Hooray, Hooray! My new article, “Some Hurts Don’t Heal”, has been published on Aish.com, one of the largest international Jewish websites! Take a peek…http://www.aish.com/f/hotm/97461774.html.

After a three-month delay, we finally got to spend a Shabbos in Cherry Hill. Although located in NJ, Cherry Hill is really a suburb of Philly, a LONG shlep from our current perch down the Cape; we’re talking 7-8 hours, without traffic. Now that we have two little pitzels, my aversion to extra-long drives […]

Wishing an official Mazel Tov to my father, Jan Buckler, on his engagement to Ms. Channie Gross of Manhattan!

When I was fourteen and the throes of my first real celebrity crush (Leonardo DiCaprio in “Romeo and Juliet”), I asked my mother who got her heart doing jumping jacks when she was my age. She didn’t have to think twice. “Paul McCartney,” she said, smiling to herself. Thus was a love affair with […]

It’s been a while, but I somehow managed to get a little time to myself to record some music the other day. This song is an original called, “Lap of an Angel”. I actually wrote it a while back, right after I found out I was pregnant with Yonah. It’s based on a passage […]

My dear friend Danielle wrote to me the other day to tell me that she is hosting a seder for people recovering in Alcoholics Anonymous and she was looking for some resources that she could use. Aside from a couple of websites that I knew are loaded with information, what immediately hit me was […]

As I stood scrubbing at a sticky puddle of spilled Agave Nectar in the cabinet I was cleaning out, I had what I like to call a “Cinderella Moment”. For any of you who have seen the Disney film, one of the first scenes is of Cinderella greeting her morning with a smile and […]

This morning, Yonah and I headed for Boston to spend the morning with Uncle Joshy, Auntie Katherine and Auntie Shira. Unfortunately, by the time we reached the bridge to get off the Cape, I was overtaken by a bone-draining exhaustion with a side dish of back spasms and contractions. As much as I wanted […]

There’s an expression in Israel that gave me a chuckle the first time I heard it: “Every child is an angel from 7 to 7″. Well, in my kid’s case that is definitely true. He’s a precocious, sweet-natured troublemaker during the day; at night, fast asleep, he looks like the poster child for childbearing. […]