Bittersweet day today–it’s College Move-In Day for my youngest daughter. Letting go is never easy, but I’m so excited for this new chapter in her life.

Well, they didn’t pull out a win today, but we’re proud of them nevertheless.

I follow several different accounts on Instagram, but one that I consistently enjoy is Chabad.org’s Daily Dose of Jewish Wisdom.  As someone who does a lot of volunteer week–I have trouble saying no, especially when it’s a good cause–from time to time things get overwhelming, and you can end up asking yourself, “Why am IRead more about Answering The Call to Do Good Works[…]

After the recent Customer Service nightmare that I had when trying to order from 24hourwristbands.com, it was going to take an outstanding experience to restore my faith in the system. Well, I can report that miracles DO happen, thanks to HP customer service. On Thursday, my not-that-old HP printer broke, and needed to be replaced.Read more about HP Instant Ink: a happy customer service experience[…]

Just as I feared: the heavy snowfall yesterday proved to be too much for some of our backyard trees to bear, and several of them came crashing down on our back deck yesterday.  We were lucky–no one was hurt, and the deck appears to be mostly undamaged. There are lots of trees and power linesRead more about T-I-M-B-E-R! Trees down!![…]

Wet, heavy snow coming down–pretty, but with lots of potential to do some serious damage. I’m not worried about losing power–we installed a whole-house generator after a hurricane knocked out our power for 10 days a few years ago–but I’m concerned about our trees.

Alyssa Alhadeff At long last, I’m able to share what I’ve been working on in the wake of the shooting in Parkland, Florida.   There’s a bill in New Jersey, A-764, that calls for the installation of emergency lights and panic alarms in all schools, to be used in the event of a life-threatening emergency inRead more about Alyssa’s Law: speeding up police notification during life-threatening emergencies[…]

I will be watching the Oscars tonight, but I’m not even sure why.  I realized after filling out my Oscar prediction ballot that I have only seen 2 of the movies nominated this year: Beauty & the Beast (live action) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  I need to get out more.