Recent Posts Tagged With 'jewish stuff'

• Divorce is so gay

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 13:11 in gay marriage, jewish stuff

  During the past 2 weeks, friends have told me about 4 recently separated couples in our local community. All 4 couples are of the lesbian mom variety. It just so happens, that I don’t know any of them personally. “What?” you ask, “you peo...

• I am morah

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:08 in jewish stuff

  I don’t quite know how it happened. Well that’s not entirely true. It would be more accurate to say that I’m still in a state of disbelief that it happened. As of next week, I will be our synagogue’s new Sunday school teacher. I’ll be ...

• Not giving up without a fight

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 18:28 in jewish stuff, promoting people and things

  Ok, we’re on. FreezeFoe is up for a final vote. This is your chance to help a struggling family find its way out of the cold, dark well of financial ruin. You could also hook us up to some sweet jobs, but it’s probably easier for you to just g...

• Solicited roast

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 17:39 in friends, jewish stuff

  I dedicate this entry to MARK L. who leaned over to me at a dinner party inebriated but earnest and asked, nay begged me to write about him in a blog. “I try not to refer to anyone by name, Mark, because I don’t want my friends to think that eve...

• Moses is a penis

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 22:09 in my sister, jewish stuff

  For those of you just tuning in:Rachel: my sister; Joshua: Her 9 year old; Evan: Her 7 year old; Moses: that 10 commandments guy.Rachel: Joshua told me that he knew what gay meant.Deborah: Really?R: ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘it means happy.’Josh...

• OMG

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 12:00 in our kids, jewish stuff

  Sunday morning, I accepted an invitation to join a friend for a class in a 3 part series with our rabbi about parenting- Jewish style. How Yids Raise Kids. I’m pretty sure that’s not actually the name of the series. This morning’s theme was ...

• The story of Passover: the finale

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 23:07 in my family, my sister, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff

  Passover has passed, but I still need to tell a bit more of the tale. More journaling. My sister Rachel, the anti-blogger, prefers these kinds of entries. She is a good aunt who loves to read stories about her nephews and watch them in action when...

• The Story of Passover: Mishpucha (family)

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 19:00 in my family, our kids, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff

  This one is going to have to flirt with the journal side of blogging so that I can record our trip and shout out to our family members. If you did not sign up for the Mommy Blog Ramblings, you may want to skip it. Regarding ramblings, I promise tha...

• The Story of Passover: The Exodus

  Posted on Sunday April 12th, 2009 at 18:44 in gay stuff, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff, using my potty mouth

  Home after a road trip to Boston to spend Passover with my sister and her family. I'll be telling the tale much as the Passover story is told at the seder - in parts. This is the story of our journey. The Exodus to Boston.Our travels were thankful...

• Is there a plumber in the house?

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 00:42 in jewish stuff, one-time things

  How many lesbians does it take to fix a washing machine? I know the one about the light bulb. It takes 3 lesbians to change a light bulb. 1 to hold the ladder, 1 to change the bulb and 1 to write a folk song about it. Yeah, well, there will be no...

• The 11th commandment-summer camp

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 23:39 in motherhood, suburbia, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff

  I haven’t been as proactive about booking play dates for Levi as I was with Asher. Levi often tags along to my coffee mornings with other mom friends who have dropped their older children off at school or else we just hang out. He’d enjoy a mus...

• Free to be

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 07:13 in motherhood, our kids, gay parenting, jewish stuff

  Thumb watch. 2009. Thanks to all those who have wished me and my thumb well these past few days. I’ve now released my thumb from the humangous beast of a bandage that imprisoned her a week ago, and I’m now operating at about 85%. Only a plast...

• Bits of bits

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 22:00 in motherhood, my family, jewish stuff

  For Baby S born 17 November 2008. You can’t fully comprehend the surreal experience of the brit milah (circumcision) until you’ve been a mother of a Jewish boy. It’s one thing to hand your newborn son over to a doctor who performs circumcisio...

• From bankers to broadway

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 16:25 in gay stuff, jewish stuff, my lady-friend

  I was half-way through the follow up entry to the Prop 8: The Musical when our lives took a bit of a detour. I was going to talk about the demise of Broadway given that it was Marc Shaiman, Hairspray’s composer, who wrote Prop 8: The Musical and ...

• Outrage and lashings

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 06:59 in motherhood, suburbia, jewish stuff, promoting people and things

  In a previous blog I had mentioned that Gabriella was outraged that Asher’s pre-school had not discussed the election in class. Well, I got a lashing from the director of the pre-school who is also my friend and loyal reader of the blog. Hi S! �...