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Not your typical gay, Jewish mom-in-the-suburbs blog. I aim to entertain even if that means the joke is on me. And sometimes I make people blush a little.
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Not giving up without a fight
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...
Last call for votes
Have you voted on QUIRKY today??15 MORE HOURS until my fate is decided. The FreezeFoe is either deemed worthy of gadgethood, and I can sit back knowing that I have successfully provided for my family AND saved the world from frozen beverages and cr...
Because you don't want us to move in with you
Gabriella has no job (Technology Strategic Sourcing & Operations if you know of ANYTHING-ANYWHERE!), and the money runs out sooner than I care to admit. We’ve made it last this long, but now it’s time to take off the rose coloured glasses and st...
Blogs soothe and relieve
About a year ago, I recognized my need to write. While I had occasionally shared tales of our life abroad and a few observations about our repatriation, I had not committed to writing on a regular basis until last summer. Even at that time, I had n...
Art By The Ferry
After 15 years, I’ve finally let Gabriella off the hook. Every year, Gabriella asks me, “What do you want for your birthday, honey?” And every year I answer, “Nothing, sweetheart. Just get me a card. Write something from your heart, and t...
Book club gone wild
Sunday, I returned home from a retreat with my book club ladies at about 1PM. One of our members was kind enough to offer her weekend house in the Catskills and host a getaway. Our monthly meetings of literary critique and philosophical debates are...
Organized house vs. organized crime
Still no job. So I says to Gabriella, I says, “Hey my little Sicilian connoli! Don’t you have any mafia connections? Wouldn’t this be a good time to call an uncle or something? Doesn’t the mafia need technology support? I could be marri...
One of many lovely blogs
I was experiencing that prickly feeling in my fingertips due to blog neglect. I have left you wanting, and it was time for me to put out. I may not be the sharpest tack, and I might not be the most diligent housewife, but one thing I am consistent...
The non-post
Apologies for the fact that I have nothing to say other than I've got a new banner. I'm looking a little less newbie and a bit more blogger thanks to the artistic talents of Mike Werner. Not an easy task to bring a coconut and peach to life, but he...
Group tweak on the Autobahn
A year ago or so. One was in pre-school for 3 hours each morning, and the other was just a year old. We had lived here for under 2 years and still didn’t feel settled. A year ago or so, we were renovating. Our house is a diamond in the rough-ve...
Enlightening news
If you’ve read entries past, then you know of our connection to the ladies behind Enlightenment Productions, The World Unseen and I Can’t Think Straight: Hanan Kattan and Shamim Sarif. I have tracked their successes with you over the past few mo...
Cool is in the eye of the beholder
As we were rounding up our things for a night out, keys, wallet, cell phones, our babysitter confessed that her friends think we are so cool because we’re always going out to do cool things even though we’ve got kids. “They’re local tonight,...
BEST LEZZY - Without you I'm nothing
We did it!! We nominated Peaches & Coconuts for a BEST PERSONAL BLOG LEZZY on TLL! I thought it was a long shot at best. Most of the blogs that have been nominated in all categories have been around longer and have a large, loyal readership and de...
TWU sweeps SAFTAS
VEELS GELUK, MABROOK and CONGRATULATIONS to our dear friends and filmmakers, Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan for the 11 awards they won at the SAFTAs this year for THE WORLD UNSEEN.The SAFTAs are the local version of the Oscars where South Africa promo...
2 - 4 - 6 - 8, Spread the word and NOMINATE
I’m relatively new to this blogging thing. I mean to say that I’m new to this blogging lifestyle. I’ve always written-even before blogging was in fashion or even referred to as blogging by mainstream society. Diverted and Rediverted were my ...
Rachel loves funny lesbos
Deborah: So, aren’t you happy your substitute teaching job is over? You don’t have to get up at 5 in the morning and go to school. Rachel: I just watched blind-folded musical chairs on Ellen. It was funny, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.D...
Because sleep is overrated
I just ate one too many fig newtons. If I had to do it over again, I would not have eaten that last one. That has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but I was in a sharing kind of Facebook status mood.How I wish we could take full advantage of...
Whoopi couldn't make it
(Jim Horton, Wayne Pollard, Helena Holgersson-Shorter, Yours Truly, Doug Perkul, Sarah Lester)Forgive me for allowing you to wait this long to hear about my moment in the spotlight-my moment of glory and fame. Some of you were unable to attend the L...
No Parking for U-Hauls
Lesbian bed death. It’s what we ladies looking for love fear when coupling with a lady friend. We start hot and heavy and then the roar of the fire dies down to a low flame and then eventually the embers cool until nothing is left but ash. Fire ...
Reading, writing and wank words
I’ve been invited to participate in the Local Writers Panel -The Bloggers at the Maplewood Library in New Jersey on Monday, January 26th at 7:30 pm. This event will be the 3rd in a series of panels where local writers have discussed what they read ...
Cap on Hairspray
I remember being in a few musicals in school. I was a dancer in each. I can’t sing to save my life, and I don’t have the confidence to act though my mother always praised me (read accused me) of being highly dramatic. Pot, kettle, black. My m...
Happy 2009
The perfect snow. Big, meaty flakes collecting on the trees and cars that insulate our peaceful, village road. Cold enough for the snow to stick, but not so cold that your nostrils stick shut when you breathe in. I don’t normally appreciate much...
Babies R Us-All of us
Lifetime Television is going to air a new documentary series focusing on women and couples facing fertility challenges. An associate of the production company contacted Family Equality Council looking for lesbian couples currently experiencing challe...
Because your kiss is on my list
I’m forever making lists. I’ve got scraps of paper in my wallet, in my pockets, on the side of my refrigerator, in my head, everywhere. I have a shopping list-which is different from my Costco list, a bill pay list, I must email/call list, thin...
I Can't Think Straight
Yet another plug. I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT opens in theatres on Friday, and I hope you’re all able to go. It’s a romantic comedy about two women from traditional backgrounds (one is from the Middle East and one is of Indian descent) who meet and...
Outrage and lashings
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! ...
The World Unseen - See it!
Have I mentioned that The World Unseen premieres November 7 in the U.S. & Canada? I will have to address Proposition 8 next week. I just can’t let those misguided Mormons who spent $21 million to pass a ban on gay marriage instead of doing a mill...
