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Physical Education, Circa 2013 20 Aug 2013 | 11:14 am
Daughter just transferred from her Jewish Day School to public school for eighth grade. Yes, her first time in public school since Kindergarten. And, happy to say, she's having a blast. Everyday we s...
I Don't Have a Headache, I Have a Thirteen-Year-Old 1 Jun 2013 | 12:44 pm
I'm driving Daughter to school one day last week and I know I've got to tell her that she lost her allowance for the week but I'm dreading it. Am I dreading it because I hate to take away her money? N...
The Psychology of Soup 20 May 2013 | 12:05 pm
I made soup this last week. While this isn't earth-shattering news, it also doesn't mean that I cranked open a can of Campbell's either. See, I inherited a Soup Gene from my maternal grandmother and t...
A Life in Fifteen Lines or Less 10 May 2013 | 02:01 pm
From time to time I read the obituaries. Like just in case someone I know has actually passed away and I didn't know, or because I'm a writer and I read between the lines - looking at the birth and de...
The Top Ten Reasons Why I Haven't Been Blogging 3 May 2013 | 01:41 pm
I'm determined to start blogging again, even though I have so many excuses for why I can't. What would I start with? How can I explain an absence of over a year? So I thought I'd do a Dave Letterman-s...
Budding Shopaholic 12 Jan 2012 | 08:00 pm
It's a typical Monday evening. Daughter and I drop off Bar Mitzvahzilla at his tutoring and then, since we're stuck in North Scottsdale for an hour, I drive over to a shopping center that has a rare t...
The Voice from the Bed 12 Dec 2011 | 08:53 pm
My mother was sick recently. Like really sick. Hospitalized sick. First there was my mom at 80 - spry, the mall walking, seniorcizing ball of energy. Then there was her auto accident a little over a ...
My Mother's Closet (a Faceshuk post) 5 Dec 2011 | 07:54 pm
Daughter is now twelve. This means a few things. Like she's sprouted up to over 5'3. (Though, somehow, she still only weighs 89 pounds...) It also means adolescence - female adolescence - has set in c...
Animals Past and Present 27 Oct 2011 | 05:38 pm
I'm sitting at my desk, working diligently, when two furry animals suddenly decide to stand on top of my work area, blocking out my screen. Oh yeah. They're my cats. Our bright idea of about six mo...
Jet Lagged 18 Aug 2011 | 04:26 pm
First there was just the fact that I needed to write a blog post. After all, I had a lot to write about. It was summer in Arizona. That's always seemed to lend itself to a lot of whining. But then, w...
