I mean, really. I told Scott I thought this might be our last year with a real tree and he was very skeptical. So then I tried to get him to share my vision by describing our awesome white fake tree with technicolor ornaments and if he was really worried about missing the smell of evergreen in our house {uh,… Read more →
Month: December 2012
True Colors
Toy Atlas Rainbow is an installation by David T. Waller. A freaking awesome one, I might add. In other news, I really like these leather clutches by Mamahuhu Columbia. Have you liked The818 on Facebook? Please do, it would make me feel good. Read more →
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, For Better Or For Worse
What a long strange week it’s been. Tragedy, joy, an apocalypse thwarted…and another round of colds here at our house. But most of all, the quickest Holiday ever which arrived with very little pomp and circumstance and left just as quietly. I can’t say I minded in the least. For once I’m not digging my heels in to the end… Read more →
One Nation, Under Fire
I am sitting on the couch at my sister’s house. My eyes are red from crying, but I am laughing with my nieces who are playing on the floor behind me, innocent and unaware. I keep glancing over at my daughter, who is napping beside me. She is beautiful, and happy, and sleeping, and safe, and I am so angry.… Read more →
Talking To Our Kids On Days Like This
{via} Like many parents across America (and likely the globe) I’m anxiously looking forward to seeing my family tonight and hugging them just a little tighter. But once the kisses and hugs have been shared, after a the tears have been shed for the horrors others are living on this day, the conversations will begin. The questions have already begun… Read more →
Hanukkah Is My Jam
It’s kind of sad to be a Jewish kid around the Holidays. Even in LA and NY where I’ve spent the bulk of my youth and it’s easy enough to feel like Jews are the majority instead of a mere 2% of the US population, the Christmas machine relegates Hanukkah to a marginalized afterthought faster than you can say Hava… Read more →
Why I Write
{via} I’m in a period of introspection. Sometimes, when that happens, I can’t write the way I’m used to. My thoughts become stunted. My focus is split. So I read instead. And when I read? I remember why I write blog. The way unfiltered words can wrap themselves around a soul in need never ceases to amaze me. Even my… Read more →
Technology Rules
Unplug, unplug, unplug. I know. [I keep saying it too.] Technology is frying our brains and taking samurai-swings at our work/life balance, and all kinds of terrible things, but be honest…YOU LOVE IT. I love it. I mean, I’m at its mercy and it is my master and all that, but if Siri could shower for me I’d download that… Read more →
Summertime Blues
I know we’re supposed to be talking about winter wonderlands and mistletoe and all, but I have a cold (yes again) and aren’t these like the cutest swimmers for tinys (tinies?) you’ve ever seen? My friend Cariann invited me to join a Pinterest board for pretty kid things and when I got there, she’d already pinned the adorable sun suit… Read more →
And She Was
{lovely gift from Ban.do} Deebird isn’t a baby any more. I’m not even sure if I can still call her a toddler. It’s beyond walking and talking and laughing at bodily functions. It’s beyond preferences and empathy and “one of these things is not like the other“. All of a sudden there’s self-awareness and humility and a relatively complete person… Read more →