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 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
My son wanted a playdate with a kid in the neighborhood that he remembered from day camp last summer. It’s been a year and we made a few inquiries and hadn’t heard back from the parent. Karen was thinking that
This month’s edition starts off with more than normal family-oriented stuff because I have some good stories. This week our kids started Summer Day Camp. It is a real right of passage — they are now out of the house
This month my kids have been more interesting than world events. We traveled to Nassau and the Atlantis water park during the February school break. Jeremy was running through the whole park looking for the kids Splash Zone and then
We got this construction set by Mobilo, a nice German toy. Jeremy keeps showing me and everyone else how to put together anything. He is a very good engineer in the making. Elizabeth and I spent this past weekend in
There are few ideas I have that I don’t see in print somewhere. But I’ve tried hard looking for a book about upscale family vacations, and I haven’t found any. Here, based on my experience so far, is a list
30 years ago I left Miami Beach at the end of 11th grade while my father was mayor of the city, and I couldn’t imagine life anywhere other than Miami Beach. I was brought up in a house where my
This posting is a combination of stuff written in November and early December. There was a delay while this site was relaunched over the past month. Today (November 9), I’m sitting on a flight from Madrid to NYC and I’m
During our trip to Germany last month, our now 5 year old Jeremy wasn’t eating all that much and wasn’t pooping either. Finally, he cried out “Mommy, give me a carrot now. I want fruits and vegetables – I need
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