Category: the girl behind the screen

A New Normal

Isabella came home all smiles yesterday. She had auditioned for her school play — High School Musical — with a roar-y Katy Perry song and it had gone better than she’d hoped. “Mama, they were all hopping along with my singing. I was the only one who got HOPS from…

Frutta A Guscio

My husband’s love of food has introduced a whole bunch of culinary tourism travel into his life, which is wonderful. Trips come up out of the blue and he’s all, “So, I’m going skiing in Utah on Tuesday, wanna come?” If you know me at all, you know that I…

A #KeepingItTogether Story

The Shabbat Project could not have come at a better time. Not too long ago, I talked at length to a friend about the concept of Shabbat — this from-Friday-night-to-Saturday-night mandatory break. Because I am somewhat of a grammar girl, I likened it to the em-dash, describing this as a…