Peanut butter and banana nut muffins From Thug Kitchen Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat pastry or all purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 3/4 cup plain almond or other non-dairy milk 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 regular size bananas) Continue reading

Eating your weight in Doritos and Oreos while binge watching all that you can on Netflix? Unmotivated to clean closets, tackle the rising wave of clutter, ride your bike, take an online yoga class? You are not alone. Dave Portnoy tweets: Quarantine is like airport rules for eating. Everything is fair game. Moiz Ali tweets: Continue reading

Memorial Day is fast approaching – a holiday which honors those who died while serving our country in the armed forces. This week’s newsletter is composed of short vignettes about my dad’s experience in the Army Air Corp as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 during World War 2. Most of these reminiscences were Continue reading

Yesterday, I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise so I am changing myself. – Rumi A young woman went to her mother in the midst of enduring the pandemic – complaining about how things were so hard for her. She was tired of the social constraints. And the Continue reading

Over the years, I’ve written SO MUCH about mothers, mothering, lack of mothering, tedium of mothering and love of mothering. This year I diverged from the pattern and recorded some videos instead. Happy listening! An alternative to worry: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_lLtTIJ5jF/ To tell or not tell questionable tidbits of family lore to your kids and grandkids: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xaNmPpE_r/ Continue reading

I love the early morning hours – when the world is still relatively quiet and the day is full of promise. But in these days of the corona virus pandemic, I find the fading darkness and glimmers of sunrise to be devoid of enthusiasm for the dawning of a new day. Who would have thought normalcy Continue reading

Does the above picture send chills down your spine because you are……….    Bored out of your mind so snacking incessantly?    Eating your weight in Doritos and Oreos while binge watching all that you can on Netflix?    Finding yourself extra hungry while quarantined? Staying home can jumpstart all sorts of stressors: sabotage our Continue reading

1925-2020 My mother-in-law didn’t die from the coronavirus, but it certainly hastened her demise Her last two weeks of her 94 years were spent in her one- bedroom apartment in an assisted living facility 25 minutes away from her youngest daughter – a daughter who couldn’t visit – and a caretaker who also was barred Continue reading

I’m pissed. And on Friday, in my normal newsletter, you will see why. In the meantime, just so you know, that when I get angry, I get energized. This Corona virus is wreaking havoc with everyone’s lives and I’m tired of being passive. So, after seeing a video about how yarmulkes are being made into masks, an epiphany ensued. I immediately began searching the internet for unlined, satin yarmulkes to duplicate the masks Continue reading

The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is unplug my cell phone from the charger, carry it to my bed and flop down on the rumpled sheets to peruse the morning headlines: The economy is crumbling U.S. daily death toll at an all-time high N 95 masks still in short Continue reading