Since Daniel goes to college in Wisconsin, there are some neuroses logistics involved in his trips back and forth. I’m a Jewish mother and I worry. It’s May and even in the Midwest the weather was good, so this time I didn’t even think about worrying. I should have. Because things didn’t go according to the plan. I’m […]
Did Ben Franklin have kids– or not??
I didn’t plan to be a mother. After several years of marriage, H and I took a class at UCLA every Saturday for 3 months with other couples like ourselves. None of us could figure out whether or not we wanted to have kids—and the classes were designed to help us decide. At the end of the […]
post Mother’s Day post
I neglected to write about my Mother’s Day. But I wasn’t neglected. V came through with chocolate. And though my kids were thousands of miles away, they bridged the distance with words—-on the phone, on cards, even on a pair of pajamas. They know how much it matters to me and they let me know […]
Mother’s Day matters
My kids won’t be around for Mother’s Day this year. But when they’re here, they always make a fuss over me. And I love it. I don’t care that it’s a day manufactured by florists and Hallmark. To me it’s the most important holiday of the year. My celebration doesn’t require flowers or a card (it […]
"Meet the Fockers"
Although I’m Jewish, I don’t know much Yiddish. But I love the words I know, which perfectly capture things that the King’s English cannot begin to describe. Schlep. Schlemiel. Chutzpah. Chatchkes. Perfect words and impossible to imagine living without them. If Yiddish was still in use, maybe we would have words for other things equally […]
College crunch time: dreams, decisions and drama
April is the apex of the college crunch — as inevitable and seasonal as the holidays or hay fever. “The envelope please” are magic words not just at the Oscars, but at the “Ivies”. These days the college envelope might be opened online — but it hasn’t lost its drama. For the winners it’s the […]
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