From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Breakfast of Champions

October 23, 2008

If I ever have a nervous breakdown, it’ll be because my daughter can’t decide what to have for breakfast. Or because Gossip Girl doesn’t tape on Tivo again. But I’m betting breakfast. Every fucking morning we have this discussion. “I don’t know what I want. What do we have?” “We have cereal, toast, eggs, waffles, […]

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Werbose Wednesday

October 21, 2008

Sorry, I can’t do the whole Wordless Wednesday thing. I’m just not that good of a photographer. But I thought that every week I would post photos of New York things that catch my eye and then write a million words about it. Hey, if you don’t like it, get an injunction, the court are […]

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The Details Are Not Important. And the Devil is in Them.

October 21, 2008

This morning, Husbandrinka and I interrupted our state of marital bliss and had a fight. As most of our fights are, it was very stupid and he was completely in the wrong. The details are not important, what’s important is that you back me up completely and be available to testify in my defense before […]

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Is This a Bad Time To Tell Him That We’re Jewish?

October 19, 2008

Because this Christmas List thing isn’t working for me in this economy. Yeah, I know that Christmas is about love and family and well, I suppose, Jesus, but are more Reformed than Orthodox, so it’s pretty much a gift exchange for us. So, I’m the only Jewish one in our family, and even I am […]

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Subways

October 19, 2008

Since my very first subway ride in New York City, when I was 10 years old and I saw a blood stained seat (ok, so it may not have been my very first subway ride, but wouldn’t it make for good blog if it had been?), I’ve had a complicated relationship with the NYC subway […]

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Week in Review

October 18, 2008

Weekend: We are upstate New York, telling each other how beautiful the leaves are and how fresh the air is. I am also casually mentioning how slow the dial up internet connection is and maybe we should return to NYC and high speed internet sooner rather than later. Monday: We are back in NYC! But […]

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Dear Diary, I Think My Mom is Reading This

October 16, 2008

So, I’m taking the Blogosphere’s temperature. Please bend over. Here is my question: How do we feel about reading our children’s diaries? (Once they are stupid enough to keep them, I mean.) I know some of you have children who don’t keep diaries yet, because they’re illiterate. Oh, I’m sorry, I guess “young” is the […]

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I Call it Maize

October 15, 2008

Over Columbus Day weekend, the kids, Husbandrinka and I went to a corn maze in the Catskills. I was fairly certain that I would never come out of it alive, and yet, here I am. I did my favorite corn maze joke where I walked past a corn stalk and wrapped part of it around […]

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