Passover and the Picky Eater
Monday night starts the most dreaded week on my calendar. And not just because it’s Spring Break from school and I have no childcare. People, it’s Passover. Passover + Picky Eater = Tsuris. Major tsuris. Let’s look at the very-short list of my son’s favorite, I’ll-eat-em-any-time foods, shall we? I’ll boldface the ones that are ...Keep Reading
Cat O’Lantern: A Play in Three Acts
ACT ONE Time: 12:30 PM, a sunny Saturday in October Place: Interior of an apartment, Williamsburg, Brooklyn HARRY: Mommy! Mommy! Let’s make the jack o’lantern! DEBBIE: OK. [Debbie spends the next 15 minutes toting everything needed to carve a pumpkin into the backyard: Small saw, long-handled metal spoon, washable marker, paper towels, garbage can, petroleum ...Keep Reading
Star Wars Birthday Party Planning
It’s birthday time. Please pray for me. Harry’s birthday wasn’t always a sign of Mommy’s Impending Nervous Breakdown. His first one went smoothly enough, just cute little cupcakes. I don’t think he minded. Or maybe he did. By his second year, some weird, ambitious fire had been lit within me. He’d developed an interest obsession ...Keep Reading
Passover Birthday Cake: Flourless Chocolate-Raspberry Torte
I’m pretty sure that if Stephen, my Italian-American husband and one true love, had known that every few years his birthday would fall during Passover and he’d have to forgo a traditional cake, he never would’ve married me. I’m also pretty sure that if he’d known I might produce something like this Flourless Chocolate-Raspberry Torte, ...Keep Reading
I Quit
Did you ever get so tired of dealing with your picky eater’s family’s food issues that you just want to hang up your potholders, walk out the kitchen door, and live on takeout until it’s just you & your spouse again? I admit, when I read Greg Smith’s resignation letter/op-ed in the New York Times ...Keep Reading
