No, relax, I’m not having baby #5. But as regular readers of this blog know, I’m a baby name fanatic. You can imagine how thrilled I was to receive the following assignment from Kveller.com: “Suggest baby names for our editor, Deborah Kolben and her husband, Gal.” (That would be Gal Beckerman, opinion editor of The…
If you haven’t followed the baby name drama in the Badzin household, I’ll get you up to speed. When I was six months pregnant with our fourth child, I spent a few days determined to change our 2-year-old daughter’s name (after I’d pushed the name on Bryan in the first place). I terrorized the family,…
The story of Baby Boy Badzin is a simple one. A little boy named Sam loved his sisters, but he asked God every night for another sibling. Then one day his parents told him a baby was coming in November. Sam, certain that his praying had worked, spent the next six months praying for a…
I’m at TCJewfolk.com today discussing why some Jews would sooner eat a ham and cheese sandwich every day (on white bread with butter) before they’d plan a baby shower for a fellow Jew. Our superstitions run deep! You’ll also learn why Bryan and I won’t announce the baby’s name right away this time. Hope to…
Remember my husband? He’s the guy who lovingly supports our fiction aspirations, encourages trips to writing conferences, preaches delightfully quaint parenting advice, and gets constant praise on this blog. Well, forget all that good stuff. Now we’re mad at him. Get this: Bryan has lost faith in my baby naming abilities. MY abilities! Aren’t I…
Welcome! I am a freelance writer living in Minneapolis with my husband and four children. My essays on parenting, social media etiquette, improving my habits, Jewish life and more appear in the Huffington Post, Kveller.com, The Jewish Daily Forward and elsewhere. I'm glad you found your way here!
