There’s a bagel in all of us
The best bagels are so much more than pieces of bread. For me, a solid bagel is an experience. A memory of cultural musings, the celebration of which, honors its centuries in existence with every…
Motion Sickness
Part 1 of 4 Part 1: Motion Sickness Part 2: “Jew eat?…No. Jew?” Part 3: So Gay Sorbet with Grandma Shirley Part 4: Adulthood Begins: The UCLA Dorms “Life lesson: The past will never change…
My BF Wears Sweatpants in Public
Every year for Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) Jonathan and I fly back east to visit family and friends. It’s our annual pilgrimage to the mother country, which, for us, happens to be a…
A Bread Worth Rising For!
For me, most Saturdays start off the same. Like clockwork Jonathan intensely jostles around 7:00am, waking both of us up. Ugh! Then, adorned head to toe in the sartorial equivalent of zombie-sleep-walking; we guide the…
Well Hello Paris!
It doesn’t take long before you too will have joined the ranks of billions of people around the world who have traveled to Paris, only to find themselves surprised at their willingness to agree that…