For Mom

This summer I decided I wanted to challenge myself to step outside of my comfort zone and learn one new thing “Just Because.” I wanted to refresh something in my life, just for ME. When I was 20, and on...

So there I am looking out at a dinner table of 20, few of whom I know well and most whom I don't know at all. I am sitting at the head of the table because that was the only space...

I was at the pediatrician. Again. It was the fourth time in a week and a half, and as I sat there trying to avoid reading the waiting room book about the dead dog, again. (Because nothing makes comforting a...

https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/988463639811194880 I thought I was over the Royals. But I'm not. I'm actually obsessed. I’m talking about Queen Elizabeth, Prince William, Duchess Kate, Harry, and his fiancée Megan. Not the Kardashians. (God save the Queen, not the Kardashians.) Let’s face it. I’m 47....

Picture this; It’s 7:30 pm on a typical weeknight in our home.  My 4 month-old is happily bouncing in his exersaucer in the living room while the 2-year-old toddler is enjoying a tubby in the bathroom nearby.  There is...

Everywhere I go, lists and piles follow. At work, I am reading emails, stacking piles of work in order of deadline, and making lists of what I need to do when I get home. In "spare moments" I am...

Spoiler alert: I’m not and I’m coming to terms with the fact that in times like these, it’s okay. The reality for most of us right now is that we’re all juggling a little too much. Almost overnight we went...

Now that it’s over, I'd like to rehash the blur that was and always is the month of May. When I think of spring, I think of flowers, the birds, the sunshine, and every conceivable childhood milestone and family...

This morning I awoke to the horrible news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in which, at the time of writing this, 58 individuals were killed and over 500 injured.   It shouldn't be like this. Just hours ago, those...

Last week, I brought my son to Hebrew School at our synagogue. It was a Sunday morning like any other Sunday, except this week there were two police officers guarding the door. Police officers were there because the day...