Archive for October, 2009

I am not a Mall type of girl.  Not normally.  But as the holidays start getting closer, I find myself drawn to them like a suburban teenager after school. I can’t help it.  It’s the lights, and the decor, the easy listening Christmas music. I want to just walk around and take it all in. [Continue]

I look at him sitting there, quietly doing his homework, focusing on solving the problems set before him. His ever-changing body in the awkward state of growth, a bit of fuzz over his lip, his arms disproportionate to the rest of his body, the sound of his voice caught between that of man and boy. [Continue]

My apartment is abuzz this week!  Halloween, right around the corner…actually, up the road at this point! My little ones are just itching to get into their costumes and going Trick-or-Treating.  Last year, we went around the neighborhood at the local businesses and they were all handing out candy.  Then we participated in a neighborhood [Continue]

Of all the Adventures I take on, on an almost daily basis, this one has to be the most challenging by far: the scaling, gutting, and cooking of a whole fish. As you might recall, upon our visit to the local greenmarket, my beautiful and incredibly convincing 4 year old asked me to buy a [Continue]

Thursdays in Washington Heights. It may seem like just another day in the neighborhood to an outsider looking in, it may seem like just another work day to those just walking through to catch the train downtown. But to those like me who spend most of their mornings in the neighborhood, running errands, dropping and [Continue]

It’s true we live in the coolest city in the world, but it’s even cooler through the eyes of my little ones. Your email:  [Continue]

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always been fascinated by one of the most beloved shows in the world, Sesame Street.  It was a staple in our immigrant-filled home back in the early 70s.  I was even nick-named Cookie Monster by my mom (and later on Cookie by my friends) due to [Continue]

I woke up this morning with a little list of things to do today. But the one thing on my list, the one thing circled in a big red circle on my calendar was the reopening of El Museo del Barrio. Back in the day, when I was a young women in college and single…and [Continue]

Last month, my 4 year old and I drove a VW Routan loaner to Millville, NJ. We were on our way to the world-class New Jersey Motorsports Park to spend an exciting day at the VW Jetta TDI Clean Diesel Cup Series—the only Green, Clean Diesel racing series in the United States. The Cup Series is [Continue]

Recently, I received a notice that Tribeca Cinemas down in the trendy West Village was launching a bi-monthly family film screening series, the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club. It had been sometime since I had been to Tribeca Cinemas, and though I loved the space back then, I didn’t really recall it being very kid-friendly.  So [Continue]