Category: Relationships

As a bit of a continuation of yesterday’s post…I’m older than all my cousins on my mother’s side of the family

The week before last, I spent a bit of time with my grandmother at my aunt’s house (watching “The Band Man”).

My family has always been connected to a rav but I never felt that I had a personal connection to my own rav until this year.

I’ve never really written a post about politics – I mean, I think you can infer how I voted

I have a couple other posts I’ve written in the past about the “shidduch crisis” but I wanted to write something more succinct. I hope you’ll find this bolstering and helpful.

Hello, all. This is not a post with any new information but can you pretend that you

Now that summer (and my little newsletter column) is winding down, I wanted to hear from you to help me figure out the next season of my blog.

Recently I had a dream that my cousin (the one I’ve traveled with and done so much with) got engaged.

The Midnight Fair, by Gideon Sterer and Mariachiara Di Giorgio, is a sweet, wordless picture book about forest animals visiting a traveling fair at night when all the humans have gone home. The illustrations depict the animals having fun on the rides, playing at the arcade games, and eating treats from the food stalls. A touching detail shows the animals’ …

Five years ago (five? years? ago??), I babysat two nephews when my sister-in-law went to have her baby during COVID.