Homeshuling is moving!

My first post on beliefnet.com will be up tomorrow morning. By Monday the archives will be transferred and visitors to this site will automatically be redirected to the new site. If you currently subscribe to my website through an RSS feed or Feedburner (or are they the same thing? I have no idea) you will [...]

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Shavuot is here, or, oh crap.

We’ve been counting down the weeks and days to Shavuot and it’s finally here – we know, because we are out of jelly beans. Apparently seven weeks wasn’t quite enough time for me to think of anything really creative to do to celebrate. Or, even anything uncreative to do. I haven’t planned anything at all, [...]

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Thinning

Right after Passover we planted sugar snap pea and lettuce seeds in the chilly soil of the backyard. About seven weeks later (we know, because we’ve been counting!) we have what must look to the (many, many) ants like a tropical rainforest – a plot of earth thick with bright green and red-tinged leaves and [...]

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Moving on

My mother sold her house a few weeks ago, during those last frenzied days of the $8,000 tax credit. I moved into the house when I was three months old (born in Fort Knox, can you believe that?) and it’s the only house I grew up in. If everything goes as planned, she will have [...]

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Stamp Out Hunger

Last night at dinner, Ella, my six year old, asked “Do grown ups ever lie?” “Yes,” I said. “There are grown ups who do all kinds of bad things.” “Do they steal?” “Sometimes,” I answered. “But it’s wrong.” Zoe, newly 5, piped in. “Well, sometimes it’s not wrong to steal.” “When is that?” I asked. [...]

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Home-shuling vs. Shul-shuling

Last year, in honor of Lag B’Omer, I held a backyard picnic/campfire for Ella’s class and lots of other friends. We roasted marshmallows, sang songs, kicked around the soccer ball, and played with toy bows and arrows. Everyone hung around for hours because it was so much fun; it was one of my favorite gatherings [...]

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