Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 5): Creamer Eyes

You may have seen them out of the corner of your eye… at the next table or across the restaurant. Sometimes, you may have had the misfortune of seeing them up close and personal, across the table from you. No matter how you run into them or how they are inflicted upon you… the result [...]

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R’ Michael Skobac’s Healthy Challah for Dummies!

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending Shabbes with my rebbe and mentor, R’ Michael Skobac [1] and his charming wife, Chashi. R’ Skobac is Master Po to my Grasshopper. (R’ Skobac and I SO don’t look like this!) Shabbes dinner featured a spelt/camut challah that was out of this world! He was kind [...]

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Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 3): Rendezvous at Sadie’s Diner & Juice Bar

If I ever need to set up a quick, informal yet special rendezvous with someone near and dear to me, I choose Sadie’s Diner & Juice Bar in downtown Toronto. Sadie’s is on the northwest corner of Portland and Adelaide streets. One block east of Bathurst and two blocks south of Queen Street West. My [...]

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Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 2): Finger Eleven at Mossimo’s

Until last year, I had never heard of the band Finger Eleven. There is a song they did (Paralyzer) that does, however, sound familiar to me. But the name ‘Finger Eleven’ did not become burned into my memory until one lovely Sunday afternoon when my dear friends Ray, JM and JM’s son were enjoying a [...]

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Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 1): Souvlaki Headrest

Many years ago, when I worked at a law office in downtown Toronto, I had a friend with whom I would love to lunch. I am using the word lunch here as a verb because when it came to my friend, lunch was not just a noun. It was definitely not a thing. With him, [...]

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Materialistic Couples Have More Problems!

Several recent studies over the last few years have suggested that money is not the key to happiness. Now while it is admittedly hard to maintain a sunny disposition under conditions of grinding poverty, once basic needs are met such as food, shelter, clothing, and so on, having more and more money and more and [...]

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Nanny Shortage Leads to ‘Nanny Poaching!’

It is a sad day indeed when someone poaches your nanny. Let me say right off the bat that I’ve been extremely lucky with all of the nannies I’ve hired over the years for Exhibits One and Two when they were mere tots. Each one better than the next with not a clunker in the [...]

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Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: The Science Behind the Kiss!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Sheril Kirshenbaum [1], science writer and author of the recent book, The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, sheds light on exactly what goes on biologically when we lock lips. Kissing basically “acts like a drug by stimulating the natural chemicals in our bodies, yet unlike other [...]

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Green Beans with Olive Oil and Garlic

Sometimes, the simple things are the best. (The name says it all!) Try this simple, quick and easy vegetable side dish. Take green beans (a bit less than 2 lbs), snip off the ends and boil. When cooked, remove from water and let cool a bit. Pour a bit of extra virgin olive oil on [...]

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I Hadn’t the Vegas Idea! *

My beloved SG and I were having a discussion the other day about the fact that I am always right. Well, almost always, anyway. She asked me to tell her about a time when I was totally, incredibly, unbelievably wrong. I immediately mentioned Las Vegas, 1985. Long ago, when I was very much younger… “Like [...]

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