Month: June 2012

  • Yes, circumcision is barbaric. If you’re this baby.

    Can you imagine living in the very best, warm, well-dimmed, well-fed place in the whole  universe for 9 months, going through the exhausting trauma of birth, feeling the cold, hard shock of the outside world, finding your only solice in being held in the arms of your tender mother and cuddled for 7 days, and…

  • We’ll always have Jew York…

    A new study’s findings on the Jewish demographic(s) in New York City is challenging some long-held assumptions/notions regarding… Jews in New York. Specifically: “The study… challenges the entrenched image of Jews as liberal, affluent and well educated. Over the last decade wealthy, Ivy League graduates like those on the Upper West Side have increasingly lost population share…

  • The cost of having kids in Israel.

    The cost of having kids in Israel.

    We ‘have’ kids. Sounds so passive, doesn’t it? Isn’t it more like, we find someone to have kids with, settle in with them, work at it for a few months to a few years, attempt to save money to cushion the initial shock, bring forth a baby into the world with extreme amounts of energy,…

  • We come in different flavors.

    After getting Koala dressed this morning, we sat on the floor of his room. He’s been quite emotionally expressive lately, and was looking at me like he has something he wanted to say. Then he started caressing my freckled arm and shoulder, and said: ‘Ima I like this.’ ‘What?’ ‘Your sprinkles.’

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Out of Focus.

    Some weeks I let the photo come to me, some weeks I try too hard, and some weeks I have one idea, and I do it once, and it works. I liked the yellow of the background to kinda indicate old vs new, giving the papers a parchment glow. But I sacrificed the natural color…

  • Bebe update: Fourteen months.

    She walks! She talks! She’s the incredible, edible Bebe. Now in slightly snobby flavor. And damn if you get in her way. You want me to step towards you? Screw you. I’ll walk when I want to walk. You want me to call you Ima? Guess what, for fun, you’re Abba this week. You think…

  • It’s not that I don’t like gum, you see.

    The sun was as bright as the boy’s face while he watched his friend’s mother dig something out of the little box in her purse. She handed him a small something and smiled. “Mommy, look!” Mommy turned around and leaned close; her eyes went wide when she saw the familiar pink, hard circle in the…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Tasty.

    Vegemite gets a bad rap. I’m American, I’ve tasted it, and gosh darn it, I do like it on a piece of toast with some butter. If you like salty, and you like toast, what’s the issue? Week 22: Tasty  Yeast extract: Australian for ‘tasty.’

  • Wherein I flip the details.

    Enjoyed today’s ‘Writing Gym,’ especially the last exercise we did. As a group, we collaborated on a few details for a character, and then each wrote a scene involving her. The details were:  A woman in her 50s, named Dorothy, single From Omaha, Nebraska, currently in London, UK Some connection to being a born again…