Camp Babka 2026 has come to a close. This session’s highlights include sand art (thank you Amazing Savings — $10 extremely well spent), Votee Park Splash Pad (I found it fun and refreshing and the girls liked running through the sprinklers that weren’t turned on), Van Saun (a fan favorite for all ages), and our trip to the Bronx Zoo. Let’s analyze that last one. Husband #1 assured me that the weather on that particular Thursday was supposed to be lovely until the rain began at 3 p.m. He lives on...Continue Reading
Time moves in only one direction. Forward. And the more of it you’ve lived through, the faster it seems to move. (Being a kid lasts for an eternity, high school takes nearly forever, college, well, not so long, and after that, whoooosssh….) So maybe it makes sense that...Continue Reading
Think of Ladino as a kind of unmelting snowball, rolling from country to country, picking up more words, more quirks, more resilience — more color — as it goes. Often it rests, then it takes off again. Ladino, the language of Sephardi Jews, began in Spain, with the...Continue Reading
To walk into 81 Leonard Gallery in lower Manhattan is to be overwhelmed by the color. Huge pieces of art, with enormous expanses of bright color. It’s not intimidating, it’s not off-putting, and most certainly it is not saccharine. It’s immersive. It’s encompassing. It makes you want to...Continue Reading
