Tweet 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…
Tweet It’s still warm in Minneapolis, but with the Jewish High Holidays around the corner, my inner rhythms told me to clean out my closet. I don’t mean that as a euphemism for a “spiritual house” cleaning. I’m talking about my actual closet, the one that holds my clothes. Now, I don’t want anyone thinking…
Tweet 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…
Tweet 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…
Tweet 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…
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!
