Sunday, November 11, 2007
The inside of my head feels like a construction site today. And just yesterday I was thinking to myself (I was smart enough not to voice this thought out loud in case I gave myself an ayin hara) how nice it is that I have not been sick for a while. Seemingly, it isn’t enough to ward [...]
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Sometimes I wonder if it just isn’t meant to be. Me. Driving. Behind the wheel.
As of today, I am now back behind the wheel. Now that my three-month period of being an intolerable backseat driver has drawn to a close (my poor long-suffering husband!), I can “talk” about the experience with some degree of perspective. In July [...]
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Since July, I have basically stopped blogging. I didn’t feel that I had anything to say, and I figured that a very telling sign that it was time to give it up was the fact that I had to think hard about what to write about, and if you have to dig deep and think about [...]
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It doesn’t matter where - sitting on the couch in front of the TV, in an elevator, at the dinner table, or standing in line at the post office - if a person within my field of vision is eating noisily, I find myself going insane. Literally. We’re not talking a mild irritation here - an [...]
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Any parent will be able to testify that parenting and child-rearing is a difficult and often thankless job. From the moment you find out you are pregnant, you have to come to terms with a new reality; your time is not your own, and you will need to subordinate your own needs to those of [...]
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Although we were somewhat behind schedule in our cooking this year, we weren’t worried. We had invited our guests, composed a menu, and were prepared to spend Monday and Tuesday cooking frantically. We were pretty excited for Shavuot - we had found some very interesting and surprisingly uncomplicated dairy recipes, and since Shavuot is only [...]
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My first instinct after reading this article is to go pick up my two girls this second, and take them out of their respective day cares.
A two-year-old boy died in Oklahoma after being bound and taped for refusing to be quiet during nap time. I know that evil acts are committed every second of every [...]
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It is Mother’s Day in the US today, and since Friday, we have been exchanging free E-cards, telephone calls, and emails, wishing our female family members in America a happy Mother’s Day. Yes, Hallmark really lucked out with this holiday.
When my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law asked Josh and I what we would be doing together to [...]
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Life right now is a little on the stressful side. We are trying to sell our apartment, and I can tell you that I now understand why it is they say that selling a property/moving homes is up there on the list of the three major causes of stress in one’s life, followed by death and [...]
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
I came across this quote today from Ray Bradbury on my Google homepage, and it reminded me how much I enjoyed reading Fahrenheit 451 [...]
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