Parenting
The Happy Hora
Over a month after my son’s bar mitzvah, and I’m still kvelling. It will be over soon. Probably….
What Do You Remember About Yearbook Day?
What do you remember about yearbook day? …
How My Son Discovered The Opposite Sex
It happened. Six weeks before his bar mitzvah, my son discovered girls….
How Having a Wedgie Made Me Realize My Son is Becoming a Man
It was a regular day. I spent a few hours at school, met a former student, ran to the post-office, stopped at…
The Book Collector: Bar Mitzvah Tales
What do you do when your child says he wants to collect books for kids who don’t have any? You collect books, of course….
On Sons & Thunderstorms
When my son was still wrapped up like a burrito, every time there was a thunderstorm, I carried him outside to the worn wooden bench perched on our front stoop, and, together, we sat and listened to the boomers….
The Leftover Magnets: Organization Gone Awry
We used to have the magnetic calendar featured above. Someone gave it to us when our son was around 4 years old,…
Unintentional Lessons in The Game of Life
You can learn a lot about your family when you play board games. Here’s what I learned about mine while we played The Game of Life….
What We Are: A Hanukkah Post
When Tech Support was a l’il dude, I found myself in the grocery store for the eleventy-seventh time that week. It was our turn to host the annual Jacobson family Hanukkah party that night, and twenty-four people were coming….