It doesn’t matter how old I get, because it’s inevitable…. every year at Thanksgiving Day dinner someone will ask, usually my mother, “so what is everyone thankful for?” And as mawkishly sentimental as it feels,…
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This year, like the past four, Jonathan and I flew back east to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) with his family. We typically fly to New York first and spend a few days…
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I have a lot of fond memories of my grandma Shirley, who’s actually my step-grandmother, but since all my actual grandparents had passed when I was little or before birth, she’s the grandmother I got…
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So where exactly did I leave you last? Oh yeah, that’s right… when we last discussed our tour of Thailand I was recounting the endless barrage of 30 baht made-to-order meals and the deluge of…
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When Jonathan’s mother comes to visit from DC she let’s our gluttonous fantasies play out, because deep down, although she’s on the Paleolithic diet and only eats foods that the hunter-gatherers did in pre-historic times…
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Of all the things to do in Paris, there were two I was determined to do: sing One Day More as Cosette while peddling for money on a bridge over the Seine and wait for…
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First full day in London, having tossed and turned for the majority of the evening before, Jonathan and I were operating on three hours of sleep. My cousin Esther met us in Hampstead at 8:30am…
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OMG! In 20 minutes my 31st birthday will be over and the one gift I promised to give myself was this blog. The blog my friends and family have been rolling their eyes at me…
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