A friend said to me “You know why we get to vote in the US? Because our votes don’t matter.” I thought that was amazingly profound. My wife was in a wine store looking for a small amount of an
I reached a milestone today. After a quarter century of roommates and a wife, I had to password protect my PC at home. Done in by my 7 year old who decided he likes going to Amazon and seeing what
First a few global thoughts about some world issues, and then travel notes of our family vacation to Evian, Paris, Bavaria, Venice and Florence. See these places again for the first time, with the kids. Middle East –I have been
We told the kids about our upcoming summer vacation to Europe. Elizabeth was very upset that she was going to miss trip day at day camp. Jeremy held us up for close to 10 minutes while he went to the
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while but you’ll see that I’ve been traveling a bit and doing a lot. I’ve also collected a few really funny stories to share. The global stuff follows these vignettes and there are travel
I was listening to the Angry Birds theme song as my kid was playing the game, and I figured it could be a Hassidic tune right out of some klezmer village in Eastern Europe. If someone in my synagogue started
I saw the funniest thing when I went to my son’s school to watch him play in a chess tournament. He sat silently, followed the rules and behaved like an adult. His 7 year old opponent put his hand across
I wish the worst for whomever had the great idea of importing rainbow looms to America. I find myself picking up about 100 tiny rubber bands every evening after my kids have dropped them all over the apartment. I’m sure
Throughout this post are pictures from our family’s recent trip to Israel. You’ll see the kids ziplining across the Jordan River and on a ropes course, the family at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, having a hamburger at a kosher
We just finished our summer holiday which involved two cities and two resorts: Chicago and DC, the Homestead in Virginia and the Mohonk Lodge in upstate NY. We are at the age where our kids want to be with us,
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