college sits on the shelf

i grew up surrounded by books about Bob Dylan or Kabbalah or physics or Sir Isaac Newton or chess plays by Bobby Fisher. What about Dad’s Hasselblad or the Talmud? I grew up in Vermont, snowed in with three channels. I read almost every book on my mother’s fiction shelves (I read ‘fear of flying’…

No Christmas & Chanukah mixing this year…instead

it will be Thanksgiving & Chanukah with a splash of football. So how does one decorate? Instead of blue & white Chanukah candles, it will be red, orange, yellow & brown candles.  I suppose I should be grateful I found some.

paint the trains red

my beautiful son @ age two. I bought him the letters of his name in unfinished wood. His favorite color then was red & black. I LOVE his little curl at the top of his head. Wish I could time travel & snuggle with him for a while.

photo by daughter

she has the talent, but no passion for it. I hope when she is on her own, that she will pick up her camera & discover what I already know-she is a gifted photographer. this is a photo of me & my husband- all my kids are screaming & begging us not to kiss. Much…

yellow stands

my daughter’s family birthday party was yesterday. I bought two bouquets at Whole Foods (great prepackaged flowers less then Publix!) & my dog & I went outside for what was left in my yard. I took the bouquets apart & mixed them up in my very small vases & I had 10 vases to scatter…

catch & release

only because it needed to grow a bit more. My son in the background

wonderful gift idea for Grandparents…or anyone

I wrote these words on card stock & gave them to the children to color.  I gave ‘We’ to my youngest because it has the fewest letters, therefor less effort required.  My oldest daughter, she had to color both, ‘Grandpa & Bubbe’ & ‘Nana & Giddy’ for both sets of grandparents (Bubbe is for a…