by jennifer | Jul 14, 2016 | Thursday's Things, Travel
I love this board in the New York store Fish’s Eddy asking who you’d vote for. Some wonderful responses, but I have to concur: there’s real logic behind that Vanilla Ice...
by jennifer | Feb 18, 2016 | Family Life, Thursday's Things
I downloaded no fewer than ten books on my Kindle, brought one advanced galley that I was super excited to read (and it did not disappoint!), and I escaped just in time the the Arctic Blast that was hitting the Northeast. This is what we left: And this is what we came...
by jennifer | Feb 11, 2016 | Family Life, Thursday's Things
This is indeed a Thursday Thing, but given that we’re all grown-ups (kids, get off the freakin’ Internet!) and today is a Thursday, let’s just all take this for granted, shall we? We had two snow days. And it was just fine. The first snow day,...
by jennifer | Jan 28, 2016 | Family History, Thursday's Things
An ashtray? Who even smokes anymore? And those few folks who do still smoke, don’t do it sitting inside, where an ashtray is there to catch that ever growing length of ash. No, today people smoke outside, hovering just beyond the posted limit (“No smoking...
by jennifer | Jan 21, 2016 | Thursday's Things
When I was a child, my parents split bedtime duties, although for a few years, when my mom was in college, my dad took on the tucking-in chore a bit more. I tended to prefer my father’s routine, as my mother sang proper bedtime songs and told lovely stories,...
by jennifer | Jan 14, 2016 | Family History, Food, Thursday's Things
I don’t know if you guys remember this post, the one in which I bemoan the lost family recipe of kichel. It was a treat my great-grandmother made that my mom adored. And I wanted to make it. Problem was, the recipe was nowhere to be found. My mom bought bakery...