Well excuse me! Does your kid really need a vacation? I think they can use a break!   Is it possibly okay to stay home for school break? Sure! But, kids are longing to do something. They want a change!   I guess life needs to have more to it than wake up, eat…

  Can it be diet time again so soon? I can’t believe it. How do they come around again so quickly? I just started one last week!!!   That’s the thing, starting them is really tough enough. But starting them again and again is enough to kill you. Sure I get it- if you could…

  Two interesting comments this weekend got me thinking ….   “Today was a great day, “said my mom, “because we laughed a lot!”   “I learned this week from my daughter,” said my sis, “that whether you feel happy and then smile, or smile then feel happy, the exact same mechanisms and channels are…

  It’s on its way. The weekend that never has enough Sundays. There is so much you want to accomplish on any given Sunday, or in the reverse, so much relaxing you want to catch up on. Yet on this particular Sunday that’s not happening!  Because that, all important, event takes precedence.   You need…

  Have you ever been that person on the plane? You know, the one uncomfortably squished next to someone you didn’t know. Have you ever walked into an elevator followed by one other person and then had the door shut. And suddenly it was just you and a stranger. Awkward silence? Yes – these are…

So what makes it a holiday? Every single week you’re cooking a chicken. So now you’re cooking a bigger chicken?! Maybe it seems different because you leave out the kugel and replace it with a pumpkin pie? Or maybe it’s just nice to be together with family during the week in a nice formal way?…

  First a short poem:   By the time you read this our world will be a very different place. The White House will soon be hosting a very different face.   Our lives will be changing in ways we can’t foresee. The leader may be leading by executive order alone or constitutionally.   The…

So why is it considered cute on newborns? Slumped over – Cute!  Bald- Adorable!  Chubby thighs- Delicious! Can we try and be that forgiving to everyone else? Obviously it must be the fact that newborns can make such interesting conversation, or are so considerate, and are so other directed! Is that what makes us willing…

  Recipes are the hottest thing!   I grew up flavoring by “feel”.  In other words, if You felt like pouring something in, you did!  Really -my mother has this gift for flavoring things and I just copied that. Which I think she got from her mom. My sister, in fact, once tried to watch…