IT’S NEVER TOO LATE & THANK YOU.

Illustration by the brilliant Alanna Cavanagh. Julia Child didn’t start cooking until she was thirty-seven. I think sometimes we get caught up with our age, thinking we are too old to do try something new. We might fail miserably… case in point, I tried to learn the Party Rock shuffle yesterday, using youtube instructive videos […]

GOOD PEOPLE

You can buy this and other wonderful prints at Fifi Du Vie (Home + Paper). Today is my 37th birthday. Happy Birthday Me. I was woken up by hushed voices, a chorus of “Happy Birthday Mom!”Β and some hand drawn cards. The past few days, thinking about my upcoming birthday, I really felt like I did […]

CHANGE IS INEVITABLE

Sometimes being a parent can be tiring, frustrating and hard. But no matter how difficult a particular day seems to be, when the kids are asleep and the house is quiet and semi cleaned up, I realize that there is nothing else I would rather do and nowhere else I would rather be than right […]

CONEY ISLAND

Coney Island, summer 2011 Over the summer, we went up to NYC to visit my sister and her family. We decided to go to Coney Island one evening. The kids were so disappointed to know the amusement park part of it was closed, because of a measly bit of rain earlier in the day. There […]

11 YEARS, 11 REASONS

This is a atypical of me. I don’t gush publicly. In fact my sister even called a ban on anniversary felicitations within the family (we don’t listen to her). We are just not a touchy-feely kind of tribe. But I am making an exception.. and my family should stop reading now.. they may or may […]

A BIRTHDAY LETTER

A birthday letter to my sensitive, curious, loyal, kind and full of energy 8 year old.