Category: Family

Flashback Friday: My Bat Mitzvah, revisited.

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Sixteen years ago today I became a woman.    And then one year ago today I wrote one of my all time favorite blog posts about the experience.   So I’m recycling it.   [And unfortunately no, that’s not my picture.   Consider it an I.O.U.] Mazel Tov, 13-year-old Me {originally posted 7.9.09} *   *   * It’s days like this that I think to… Read more →

Twenty Nine Candles

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June 2nd, 1981.   Somewhere in the Valley… I spent a lot of time thinking about my Mom today – thinking about what she was doing 29 years ago at this time – something I did so recently, and yet something that already seems like a distant memory.   Still, at 10:41 this morning, she called me, and recounted the morning… Read more →

Fabulous Five

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Over the summer I got to spend a week with my family holed up in my Aunt Judy’s house in New York.   For the first time in probably a decade, my Mom, Dad, Sister, and myself spent six nights under the same roof, now accompanied by four new members of our family – Scott, Todd, Eva, and Lo.   (Miss Dee… Read more →

The biggest cousin.

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Eva can’t get enough of little Dee.    She gave her a bottle of breast milk, and “shhh shhh shhh’d” her until she fell asleep in her lap.     In a lot of ways, Eva was my first baby love.    She was the first newborn I ever snuggled with.    I still remember the moment Marissa called me to tell me… Read more →