joan garry

The timing of our school trip to Washington DC coincided with the arrival of The Days of Remembrance, a weeklong program of the US Holocaust Museum, developed to ensure that once a year, for more than just one day, we remember.
The goal of remembering is to ensure that we don’t forget.
I wrote about this, about [...]

I recognize my privilege.  I was able to take time off (from the job I don’t currently have) to join my fourteen year olds on a 3 day class trip to Washington, DC.  Now there are some parents that would not consider it a privilege to spend 3 days with  14 fourteen-year olds on a [...]

I guess it could be any dad.  At least any dad with a really big swingset.  This dad also has a really big yard.  At his house, they call it the South Lawn.
I’m on a school trip to DC with Ben and Kit, their 8th grade classmates, teachers and several parents.  We were thrilled to [...]

I know this picture was not taken at the White House Easter Egg Roll this week.  This was the warm-up.  You see, Cathy and Leah’s daughter, Rosemary is shy and retiring and they needed to get her out beforehand so she could loosen up.   Sad that she is so painfully shy.  Poor thing.
This [...]

With four Jews and one Christian (that would be me) in our family, you’d think that I would have limited ability to celebrate ‘my’ holidays.  But not true.  As Eileen says, Christian holidays are always such fun.  And we have these fabulous icons associated with them.  We’ve got Santa for Christmas.  We’ve got the Easter [...]

My mom hit a homerun at Christmas this year.  She bought our kids ‘Snuggies.”  They went wild for them, fought for them.  My mother was actually ahead of the trend curve – it was amazing for any relative no less my mom.
As with any fashion craze, spin-offs are inevitable.  So the other day, Scout sent [...]

This picture is evidence that I visited a website called familywatchdog.  Little red squares illustrate homes of convicted sex offenders in my zip code.   This picture is also evidence of the very last time I will ever visit this website.
This morning at The Newark Star Ledger’s Parenting Blog, I have written about an email I [...]