Buzz lightyear

Trying to find a movie to accommodate the tastes of my tween and teen daughters usually sends my husband and I running screaming from the room. But any of the movies in the Toy Story franchise always get an enthusiastic thumbs-up from both camps, so I was pretty excited to find this sneak peek…

Halloween is more than a month away but the costume talk is frequent between my sons. They're likely to have fifty ideas up until a week before the big day, but so far Darth Vader is a strong contender (never mind that they've never seen Star Wars). And if my oldest decides to stick with the... Read More »

I do not conquer jet lag very well. We returned to Israel on Thursday afternoon (noting from the airplane while in Israeli airspace that nearly every green patch within view was filled with parked cars and Israelis barbecuing and celebrating Israel's Independence Day), and while I dropped from... Read More »