Passover is four weeks away, so tonight my mother and I started putting together our menu. I'll be making gefilte fish, as I always do, plus my vegetarian matzoh balls and a Middle Eastern-inflected salad of butter lettuce with grapefruit and avocado. We'll have classic Ashkenazi charoset, of course...

A Little Princess (Signet Classics) (Paperback) by Frances Hodgson Burnett ISBN: 0451525094 Price: USD 5.95 46 used & new available from USD 0.10 Sara Crewe is one of the richest girls in her school, but her kind heart and vivid imagination are what wins her some special friends. Little does Sa...

Aleksandar Antonijevic and Sonia Rodriguez with Artists of the Ballet in Romeo and Juliet. Photo by Sian Richards. If there's a Shakespearean story better written for the laced-up, straining, exquisitely controlled sexuality of ballet than Romeo and Juliet (the original heartbreak of teen lovers, in...

Filed under: Image of the Day Beautiful brown eyes and perfect ringlets make this little girl one to watch. Thanks to boyke bader for this great addition to our Flickr pool. If you'd like your own picture featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr Pool - We'll highlight an image every...

I haven’t posted in forever and I know that you’ve all missed my stories from classroom. Like today in a parent-teacher-counselor conference when I told the parent: Your child needs to suck it up and drop the middle school behaviors. But I digress… Today was the annual “Breas...

A week before this comes out, X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts playing.  And does that look all sorts of exciting and full of Hugh Jackman?  Why yes!  Yes it does!...

Whatever your thoughts about President Obama, you have to admit, the man can read. Set a teleprompter in front of him and he’ll read it so well some people actually get chills. Japan’s Prime Minister, Taro Aso, isn’t so lucky: He’s made so many public blunders that an opposit...

Over the weekend, the first unofficial iPhone App Store that allows for paid applications was launched. Called the "Cydia Store," it's actually a feature within the Cydia application itself. If you're unaware, Cydia is an application installed during the process known as "jailbreaking" where iPhone ...

Working out delays effects of aging Many people think of stiff joints and slow movement as just normal parts of aging, but if people keep up healthy, active lifestyles as they age, they can ward off some of those health problems, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. People of any age can star...

Last night, I had a rare evening with my husband. The kids were in bed and we were both awake, though oh so tired. We sat together and watched TV and continued a conversation that we were able to start when he got home before dinner was on the table. This morning, I’m still tired. I know he’s ti...