Just For Fun

Wild Kingdom of Ikea

February 10, 2006

We recently took a trip abroad. But we didn’t get on an airplane, and we didn’t cross any borders. We visited Ikea. Ikea, to the uninitiated (as we were before our recent pilgrimage to its Netanya branch, Ikea’s only store in Israel) is a home furnishings extravaganza of theme park proportions. You don’t just visit […]

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Pack Rat

September 15, 2005

“Happy Birthday!” my wife Jody and the kids cried out as they placed before me a home-made chocolate cake with white frosting and peanut M&Ms spelling out the number “45.”.   “Thank you,” I said as I hugged each one of them in turn. “And what’s this?” I asked innocently.   As I felt the […]

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Vision Therapy

August 15, 2005

As regular readers of this column know, I am quite meticulous about exercise. Rarely a day goes by without me hitting the pavement, IPod strapped to my arm.   Now, apparently, I have to give my eyes a work out too.   A few months ago, I got a new prescription for my glasses that […]

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The Tupperware Bra

January 12, 2005

Have you ever wondered what a Tupperware Party is all about? I know I have…I mean, I’ve heard the term for years. But when I think about it, I always conjure up an absurd image of 1950s-era housewives in fancy party dresses drinking, laughing and flirting while fondling dumpy plastic containers with that funny name…Tupperware. […]

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Doing the Para-Macarena

November 4, 2004

Twenty-two years ago, on my birthday, I jumped out of an airplane. How I got up the courage, I still don’t know, but I have had nightmares about it ever since. It wasn’t the freefall to earth that got me: I had a parachute on after all and it was hooked to the plane so […]

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