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I have no idea who reads this column. Specifically, I mean the demographic. Are you a kid? A newlywed? A new parent? An old parent? A grandparent? Do you wish you belong to any of those previously mentioned demographics? Are you a bitter person? A person with sociopathic or narcissistic tendencies? Are those also demographics? In any event, since it is almost the 10-year anniversary of my writing this column, I wanted to delve back into one of the first columns that I wrote. As a writer, I was curious to see...
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I am pretty sure that I wrote a column about self-care at some point during the pandemic. There was a whole movement on the importance of taking care of yourself before addressing the needs of others. Like how, if the plane you are on is going down, you should put the oxygen mask on yourself before putting it on your child or anyone else. How can you help those around you if you can’t breathe? The pandemic certainly was a time for self-care, basically because all we had was time. Time...
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What is life? Life is good, life is bad, life is surprising, life is challenging. As for the meaning of life? Life is waking up every morning and being grateful that you can get out of bed and walk to the bathroom unassisted. Or even remember where the bathroom is. Okay, that isn’t the actual meaning of life, but it is a very important aspect of it. If this past year has taught me anything, it is that gratitude comes in all shapes and sizes. And that there is always good...
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Welcome to February! There is just something about this month — Presidents weekend, leap year, and, of course, Groundhog Day. I was too lazy to google the origins of Groundhog Day, but I am assuming it had something to do with someone who had a pet groundhog and decided he/she was clairvoyant and could predict the weather. Is that what happened? I will have to google it at some point, but for now, we will go with that theory. Truth is, every year, I wait to see what the groundhog...
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A couple of years ago, I wrote a column called “Parenting at 10,000 Feet.” It was about a family that Husband #1 and I had the pleasure of sitting next to on an airplane. They had three little kids and were doing their very best to entertain them so that they didn’t scream for the entire plane ride. Of course, as these things go, when one kid was finally calm, the others would decide they needed more attention. It was fun for me, but not so fun for them. And then...
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I had the honor, privilege and pleasure of being Strudel’s winter vacation destination. Technically, she didn’t have winter vacation. Her mom, my DIL #1, allowed me to kidnap her because my surrogate granddaughter actually did have a winter vacation and I didn’t want to be lonely. Strudel didn’t want to go to the Bahamas or Camelback. Once she found out how many people were going to Panama, that was totally out of the question. She just wanted to go to Babka’s. As I said already, I was honored and know...
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Hey, it’s yeshiva week — what are you and your family doing? Well, I am old, and my kids are old, so yeshiva week is just a reminder that I am too old to have kids who are still in yeshiva. Actually, come to think of it, all three of my kids are still in yeshiva, just not a yeshiva that has vacation. And when the folks who go to my kids’ current yeshivas do have vacations, they do not go to the same locations that those kids who have...
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