List on the 3s lives!  If it’s a date with a 3 in it, it’s a list from Shiny.
Just because I didn’t do a recap of 2008 doesn’t mean I need to steer clear of the Resolutions and Goals people often make at the beginning of the new year…
Oh — and remember: these are just [...]

Six years and about twenty hours ago we had no clue that this day would happen.
In fact, it was the Saturday night before. We hadn’t entirely unpacked from our trip to Orlando — where we had volunteered as staff for our annual youth group international convention for which we volunteer every year. socKs’s doctor said [...]

“It says there’s no smacking here!”
I’m on the airplane next to the almost six year-old. He’s a pretty good flyer — now that he’s old enough to help carry his own stuff, go to the bathroom in the terminal, and entertain himself. Now that he’s reading anything and everything, it also makes things more interesting [...]

“List on the 3s” is a meme which Shiny has chosen carefully for YOU! After plenty of market research, he’s discovered that 71% of his readership prefer him to come up with random lists on any date that has a 3 in it.  That’s why you’ll see one of these “List on the 3s” come [...]

List on the — no, wait. different day, different meme:
* I’m feedburnin’! I’ve finally decided to get on the Feedburner bandwagon. This is my first post since I changed over to it (and redirected my original RSS feed to it), so hopefully everyone who is already subscribed to the old feed is reading this just [...]

“I’d be interested in seeing you write a piece on what your take on Judaism is. It could be about the religion, the culture, Jewish people, matzo ball soup — whatever you decide. I’m sincerely interested in what you might write specifically because you spent most of your life growing up in a place where [...]

Dateline: September 2, 2008 — 3:45pm
*ring*
Hello?
Hello, Mr. Shiny? This is Ms. Schedule. I’m your son’s Kindergarten teacher.
Ah, yes! How are you? How did the first day of school go for him?
Actually, that’s why I’m calling. We have some things to discuss.
Oh no! How is he? Is he okay? Did anyth…
Relax. He’s fine. He’s in [...]

Note: although the title of this post is “Sorry,” this post is not in any way an apology for not blogging lately. I apologize if this was your initial thought. Deal with it.
Our son Avi is 5 1/2 — and is at the age where he can follow the rules of some games pretty well.  [...]

You may have noticed that I’ve been conspicuously absent from this corner of the blogosphere for a few days now. Some of this has been because life in general has been keeping me busy. I also had a period of sub-broadband speeds for our home internet connection — something which I assure [...]

In lieu of any mind-stimulating content on my blog this evening, I provide you with an audio recording. It’s from 1974, and it consists of me singing the theme to Sesame Street and the alphabet song (introduced by my Mom).
This comes from a cassette tape my sister-in-law converted to digital audio and which my brother, [...]