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. […]

I just got off the phone with my good friend Avigayil who gave me one of the best quotes I have ever heard: “I don’t need my husband to buy me flowers or romance me; all he needs to do is not screw up”.

Just thought I’d share.

For the past two days I have been camping out in Montville, NJ at the home of my Aunt Renee and Uncle Scott, and my cousins Elli and Nathan (their older brother Max is away at Binghamton). Montville is about a ten minute drive from North Caldwell, the town where I grew up. So, […]

The other day I decided to suit up and haul Yonah down to SoHo to the Children’s Museum of Art, where three mornings a week they hold an art class for little ones. On our cab ride there, I envisioned a serene, light-filled space with Mozart playing in the background and rows of mini-easels […]

Every neighborhood in New York City boasts its own distinct flavor and the Upper West Side is no exception. One of the more family-friendly areas of the city, its residents take pride in the area’s down-to-earth attitude, especially compared to the upturned noses of the ultraposh East Side.

But, this is still New York, […]

For the past few days, we’ve been visiting my father in New York City. While Dad’s at work, Yonah and I have been spending our days having little adventures, visiting friends, reading books at Barnes and Noble (followed by a rollicking run through the children’s book section, cleaning up the piles of books and […]