2023-10-12 20:43
Never Again. We were raised on these words. We were sure that this could never happen again. This past week so much has been written that I did not feel the need to add my voice to this repe… Read More
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To laugh. Sometimes to the point of tears.
2023-04-25 03:44
You are 34, right? I keep having to recount by doing the year you were born math and we all know what Mom Math looks like.
Well, this was a big year, wouldn’t you say? As a rec… Read More
2022-09-16 06:06
Remember this moment. Try to slow down time and realize how spectacular it is. Breathe it in. Eat it for breakfast. (metaphorically, of course. Everyone knows you don’t eat breakfast)… Read More
2022-06-12 13:20
Happy Birthday, Corey Glaser!
And what a year it has been. You have been busy!
You have been in our family for so long that my othermother status comes with the joy of watching you gro… Read More
2022-04-25 04:01
Thirty-three. How about that. Well, that went fast. (Ok, maybe not really.)
But here we are, with you being all grown up. Like really all grown up. And me, well, you know, it’s a hi… Read More
2022-03-10 19:18
Or what we like to refer to as Mom Math.
On this day, 4 years ago, in between 4 nor’easters, after 6 years long distance, these 2 joined together and grew our 2 families into a sing… Read More
2021-09-17 03:00
Wait, what?!
Typing that is a bit jarring. This makes me – as my birthday card from you read – ‘dead in dog years’.
Dan, I bet you thought I forgot the birthd… Read More
2021-06-20 13:34
Daddio-sir. Not sure when I started calling you that, but it just fits!
TheHarvZ. My dad. The first man in my life. And he did it pretty damn gracefully (excluding those teen years that w… Read More
2021-04-25 18:05
32… we have now entered the time when I am no longer twice your age. Does this make me younger? Yeh, I know, still a geezer.
But there is a big shift. I thought about this last ni… Read More
2020-09-16 02:21
You are 28, right? There are years that I have gotten this wrong. And in the land of time warps, how do you actually know you are 28? What is time anyway…
Never mind, I did the mat… Read More
2020-06-12 13:22
This is a first; the birthday blog post for my son-in-law. If you know our relationship you totally get the strike through in that sentence.
To quote my daughter, “You should be wit… Read More
2020-04-25 16:14
This is my girl in her natural habitat. I love everything about this shot. Her husband in the background. The glow from the stage. The wristband. Those curls. Her smiling eyes. And yes, of c… Read More
2020-03-27 02:27
First, am I supposed to call it that? Or Covid-19. I don’t want to appear pandemic ignorant my first week back here.
Ahhh… trash. Garbology. This used to be a favorite topic… Read More
2020-03-26 00:43
Let me explain.
If you are fan of the Dead, or any jam band for that matter, the expression when describing songs running together in a set is ‘into’: [song title] into [song… Read More
2020-03-25 00:08
Stress crafting. That is what I called it. I was compelled to glue glass.
After collecting a season’s worth of glass corks from rosé wines, and obsessively scouring eBay for… Read More
2020-03-23 03:55
“Write!”, he said. Actually, he didn’t use the exclamation point. He never does. Truthfully, he has the most calming voice on earth, he needs no punctuation.
No, I am no… Read More
2019-09-16 19:21
It appears I only come back here for my kids’ birthdays, but it is as good a time as any. And this guy is now solidly on the back end of his 20s, so he is in need of some big time re… Read More
2019-04-25 00:59
Thirty. T-H-I-R-T-Y. 3-0! (Indulge me, I don’t do this very often anymore.)
How can that be? I was (almost) 30 when I had you! Which means you have been hanging around for almost half… Read More
2018-04-25 03:10
I’ve been writing these birthday posts for an awfully long time. This one is extra special as you are now the age I was when I became pregnant with you. No, this is not a hint. I am f… Read More
2017-12-08 03:20
Hi, It’s me. I guess I am back. I know, it’s been awhile. And how odd that I should return with a post about urinals. I just need a little comic relief. Consider this a gift.
Las… Read More
2017-09-17 00:51
25. Twenty-five. A quarter of a century. WTH! Unclear how I am the mother of all those years. Lord knows I certainly don’t behave that way.
Which brings me to my son. Dan. Danny… Read More
2017-05-14 13:42
And so will you.
(this post is dedicated to a colleague who knows who she is and is just learning this dance)
Having made it to the other side of parenting, now hanging with the 2 best adul… Read More
2017-04-25 14:16
Twenty-eight! The age I was when I was planning to have you, and now here you are being that age. And being it so damn well you astound me.
Jana, indulge me in the annual birthday post… Read More
2016-09-16 18:02
This guy! I adore pretty much everything about him (ok, except for mornings).
That sweet face on the right stares out at me from those big brown eyes, with a little hint of a smile&nb&helli…Read More
2016-07-08 16:02
This has never been a political place, and has certainly not been a very active one for a while. But it is where ‘I go’. And today, I had to ‘go’ somewhere. Time to C… Read More
2016-05-26 21:01
Nope, no one in my house is graduating. But for some reason I found myself going back and reading all of the graduation posts that I had written for my kids. I guess it is that time of year… Read More
2016-04-25 13:37
You wake up one morning, a good 30 lbs over your normal weight (don’t judge), wash your hair, take off your jewelry and nail polish (your version of natural childbirth) and you walk in… Read More
2015-11-27 04:39
Or it could have been my beloved/hated Chambers oven. From 1939. I adore this thing, but it is not the most reliable way to cook.
Every Thanksgiving I try a different way to sur… Read More
2015-11-25 03:06
Thanksgiving, like every holiday, starts off with the business of lists and recipes, shopping and cleaning and ends up where everything seems to, with the bittersweet memories of t… Read More
2015-11-06 18:53
This is my girl.
Many of you have watched her grow up here; at least the parts of her we like to share. Jana not only made me a mom for the first time, she made me a mom blogger with my&nbs&helli…Read More
2015-10-14 15:30
And dads.
We used to call my mom the mad clipper. She was the original media sharer. Back in the day her scissor was as poised as any mouse would be today. She loved to share things that tou… Read More
2015-09-10 04:11
It has been a while since I have been here, but this story just begged to be a blog post, so here I am. Yeh, I missed you guys too.
This is a spin on the age old advice that every mom gives… Read More
2015-05-27 02:11
These days I feel so far removed from the original I Could Cry Days of having no time. To breathe. To stop and think. To smell the peonies. Now life is more under control. The parenting that… Read More
2015-05-21 21:23
This sign hangs in the window of a restaurant in town. From the outside, it reads ‘Organico’.
From the inside… anyone see what I saw?
As I was taking this shot I sai… Read More
2015-05-19 08:00
I saw this quote on Facebook, only to find out that it was plagiarized from Queen of Your Own Life. I made it a point to find the original graphic.
Today is a remin… Read More
2015-05-18 15:55
My daughter saw this sign as we were crossing the street and rushing to get to a show the other night. As always, the family keeps walking while I take a shot because… well, because… Read More
2015-05-10 12:13
This day is a tough one for me, and you guys too. But as a friend told me yesterday, ‘now we are ‘the moms’, so I am trying my very hardest to make today about what we hav… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I was on the phone with a colleague today and my call waiting clicked on. Our conversation: She: Do you have to get that? Me: Nope, it’s breast cancer calling. She: Never a good idea t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This headline is just too good to be true, right? A Yorktown, NY funeral director has decided to venture down the path of a new revenue stream. He has started a business called Mini 3D ME, c… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It is always a good idea to leave your comfort zone, zip code, generation, cultural norm… anywhere that makes you see the world through a lens that is too similar to your own. Homogen… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Oh those Brooklyn hipsters, they make us yuppies of way back when seem like we did not indulge our children. I am usually saddened by the race to adultify babies. Having been through the who… Read More
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