Apr 28, 2014
Remembering the Holocaust and Thinking About Tolerance
By Laurie Levy, April 28, 2014 Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 28, 2014, corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on...
Apr 24, 2014
Helicopter Parenting Times Three Generations
Posted in ChicagoNow, April 24, 2014 (cartoon by Marcia Liss) My 90-year-old mother likes to tell me I’m her mother now. What I think she...
Apr 24, 2014
Helicopter Parenting Times Three Generations
Cartoon by Marcia Liss Published in ChicagoNow, April 24, 2014 Is it possible to be a helicopter daughter, parent, and grandparent all at...
Apr 10, 2014
Passover Prep Makes Me Feel Like a Slave in Egypt
Posted in ChicagoNow, April 10, 2014 (cartoon by Marcia Liss) I’m not a particularly observant Jew, so I really have no right to complain...
Apr 7, 2014
Why my Grandkids Can’t Let It Go
Posted in ChicagoNow, April 7, 2014 During a recent gathering of my family, my grandkids staged numerous performances of scenes and songs...
Mar 17, 2014
Why Can't Israel and Palestine be BFFs?
In her Korean hanbok with her Mom's tallit Published in ChicagoNow, March 17, 2014 My guest blogger today is my almost eight-year-old...
Mar 12, 2014
10 Things I’ve Learned as a New Blogger
Published in ChicagoNow, March 12, 2014 When I first started blogging at the end of September, I thought it would be a piece of cake. I...
Feb 25, 2014
A Confused Woman Reviews The Lego Movie
Published in ChicagoNow, February 25, 2014 “It’s confusing and I only kind of liked it,” was my 7-year-old granddaughter’s initial...
Feb 5, 2014
All Work and No Play
Published in ChicagoNow, February 5, 2014 It's been over 25 years since Robert Fulghum published Everything I Wanted to Know I Learned in...
Jan 30, 2014
Send This Boy to School
Published in ChicagoNow, January 30, 2014 The guy in the mask is my four-year-old grandson who “attends” preschool five half-days a week...