Dear Simon, I remember the day Brian and I found you at BARC shelter in Brooklyn. You had no tail and you were wrestling with a white cat named Cody. Joanna, who worked there, said you were a special boy. She was right. For the past 11 years you have been there for me through [...]
Samara is two and a half-ish and she has developed this delightful habit of screaming when she doesn't get what she wants. I know (in my mind) that it's a phase. She won't be screaming for the rest of her life. I don't reinforce the screaming by giving her what she wants when she's shattering [...]
This Halloween we went trick or treating on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. We stopped at all the various stores. The kids were happy to fill their 99 cent store plastic pumpkin baskets with candy loot. As we were collecting the goods I kept thinking about how different it was trick or treating when I was [...]
On Saturday October 26th, the kids and I had the pleasure of attending an awesome Halloween Kids Cruise by the Circle Line! There was a balloon artist, a face painter, a magician, and a band on board the boat. Samara was excited about the face painter. She requested to become a mermaid. Here she is [...]
Tonight I had the opportunity to speak at the JCC of Greater New Haven on the topic of "Can Jewish Women Have it All?" I was joined by Rabbi Rona Shapiro, two wonderful female Jewish authors, Blu Greenberg and Michelle Cove, Rabbi Leah Cohen, and Doris Zelinsky, former CEO of Country Home Bakers. I was [...]
When I picked up Ari today, one of the paras approached me. A para is someone who works one on one with a child who has special needs."I wanted to let you know that Ari came up to me on the playground today and let me know that a group of kids were hitting Bryan.** [...]
Halloween is approaching and The Circle Line Kids Cruise is prepared to celebrate! Bring your kids on board the Halloween Kids Cruise on Saturday 10/26/13 at 10am and make sure to come in costume. Want to hear more? Here's Lindsey Guinn from Circle Line with the scoop:
It's going too fast!
