Category Archives: The Not-So-Trivial

“Mommy Wars”: An Argument About Us, Around Us, But Not Between Us.

By now you’ve seen this weekend’s TIME cover, right?  The one where 26-Year-Old Jamie Lynne Grumet is breastfeeding her upright, not-quite-four-year-old-son Aram. I’m not really interested in talking about the image and the shock value it was art directed for. … Continue reading

I Stand With Diana.

Diana Stone is a Mother. A really good mother. And she’s pregnant with her second. Only this time it’s twins. She found that out back in February and has been trying to wrap her head around all the excitement (and … Continue reading

The Sexiest Post EVER! Car Seats!

I have the worst headache. It might be from my allergies acting up, but more likely, it’s from the fact that Delilah is FINALLY big enough for a convertible car seat and the things you are forced to care about … Continue reading

Facebook + Instagram = Me Scared.

So, Facebook shelled out a Billion for Instagram.  {I take comfort knowing that even if I HAD won the lotto last week, I couldn’t have stopped it.  Zuckerberg.} I love Instagram.  Like, LOVE love it.  I have a real, deep, … Continue reading

And now this.

Yesterday I gushed about how happy I was to have enrolled Delilah in our local temple preschool. This morning in the south of France, a young Jewish mother — not unlike me — got a call that her 30-year-old husband … Continue reading