The other day as I was sitting in the kitchen after school with my two daughters and baby boy, I started thinking about how fortunate I am to have such wonderful kids. (In other words, I had gotten in my morning nap that day and no one had nagged me since breakfast.)
May 2009
May 27th, 2009
JITC on TV and on the Radio!
Hi there! I just wanted to remind you to set your DVR, Tivo (or VCR, if anyone's still got one of those) for my upcoming Friday, May 29th appearance on TLC's What Not To Wear at 9PM EST with Mayim Bialik. I can't guarantee how much of the show I'll be on, or whether or not what I say will be particularly profound (for some reason they wanted to control the direction of the interview!), but I'm at least hoping that the tiny sliver of my outfit that they caught on camera will look good. (Do you know how hard it is to shop for an outfit if you're going on a make-over show and you're supposed to be the one giving out the advice?!) Continue reading JITC on TV and on the Radio!
May 20th, 2009
Mayim Bialik to Guest Star on a Very Special Jew in the City!
The series of events in this particular story begins with one of my favorite childhood pastimes - watching television. Don't worry, I did plenty of outdoorsy, brain-stimulating activities as well as a kid, but I was always quite fond of the TV. My mother tells tales of how I would awake early on Saturday mornings and watch hours upon hours of cartoons, all without having used the bathroom since the night before. (In other words, television gave me super-human powers.) By my teenage years, my father, who had Ivy League aspirations for his daughters, would pass by the family room where my eyes would be glued to the screen and ask "Harvard Clown College, Allison?"
Continue reading Mayim Bialik to Guest Star on a Very Special Jew in the City!
May 18th, 2009
Sleepless in New Jersey
Check out my article on Aish.com which recounts the existential crisis I suffered from as a kid that eventually led me back to my traditional Jewish roots.
May 12th, 2009
Mother = Garbage Can
Mothers are garbage cans. But don't try to read into that. I don't mean that mothers are treated like garbage, although sometimes we are: under-appreciated, under-respected, under-acknowledged. I also don't mean we look like garbage, although, let's face it ladies, sometimes we just don't feel like being all put together if we've been kept up all night by crying babies after we've been nagged all day by whining children.
May 6th, 2009
You People Are All The Same, Right?
My downstairs neighbor is an older, self-described "not so religious" Jewish lady who lives with her cat and is surprisingly friendly to my family. This has led me to conclude that she is either hard of hearing or soft on judging. I can't imagine what it would be like to have lived below us for the last five years. Continue reading You People Are All The Same, Right?
