Well, here’s another post bound to fail to capture the moment. I’m going to give it a try anyway. It was around 8:30 or so last night, and Matt, Simon, and I were all on the bed. Simon should have been tucked into bed by this point, but we tend to run late on Thursdays […]
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Yesterday, just past 3:00 a.m., my great-uncle Eddie died in Detroit. He’s the youngest of the four Kahn siblings who arrived in the US in 1922—my Bubbie’s “kid brother.” That leaves the oldest of the bunch, my great-uncle Dave, as the sole surviving sibling. He’s 99 years old and lives in a nursing home about […]
For anyone who has chosen to not have children, you may perhaps already know that the statistics back up your choice. For the fact is that when given questionnaires about life-long happiness, childless couples consistently report greater measures of happiness than ones with children. The one caveat here is that the couples need to have […]
A few years ago, I decided to rethink our family’s Passover seders (a seder is a service you have at home for the holiday that centers around a meal and telling the story of the exodus from Egypt). We were still following a traditional, Hebrew-heavy model that wasn’t cutting it with our interfaith, child-filled crowd. […]
Exact words spoken by Simon todayat lunch-time: Simon eat burrito. Burrito tastes yummy. Next time we’re in SF, we have a date at La Taqueria, OK?
When you work from home, it is more crucial than ever to maintain professional decorum. In that way, people know you are truly working from home, as opposed to, you know, “working”. Matt and I put on a clinic of at home professionalism on Wednesday evening, when he had a regularly scheduled meeting from 5:00-7:00 […]
I hate my skin. It itches all summer from sun sensitivity, it itches all winter from dryness and wool sensitivity, it’s prone to sprouting little red bumps on the backs of my legs and arms, and I’m now wrapping up my third decade fighting acne. Everything bothers my skin, even things like “hypoallergenic” or mineral-based […]
Kindergarten Reunion
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool) on Apr 7th, 2009
Last October, at least I think it was in October, Matt and I attended our 20th high school reunion. I ended up having a great time and marveled at how fun and funny it was to catch up with everyone after not seeing most for 20 years. Turns out that was just a prelude to […]
We’ve had terrific spring weather this past week, but a cold front is due to roll in tonight. So to make the most of it, we went to parks twice yesterday and again this morning. Today I even chronicled our adventures in the photo album. Tomorrow school starts back up, then it’s Passover, and by […]
I read Lisa Belkin’s “Motherlode” blog on the NYT pretty regularly, despite my reservations about Ms. Belkin’s research style, which often seems to consist of looking around at other moms who share her rarified lifestyle. Last week, two posts got me to thinking. One was about the correlation between having children and self-reported unhappiness (Yes, […]