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Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. Northeast on Fire! Massive Heat Wave Bearing Down! No Relief in Sight! When summer comes, TV weather people shout these teasers […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. Through the magic of all-knowing, all-seeing Google, you can sign up for a “Google Alert” that lets you know when certain […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. A week or so ago, our husbands told us what they wanted for Father’s Day: A new umbrella to replace the […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. William Shakespeare was born in April, the month that kicks off with April Fools’ Day. So perhaps it’s no surprise that […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. When we go to the newest restaurant, we feel young and trendy – until we have to turn on our iPhone […]
On Valentine’s Day in fifth grade, we remember sitting at our desks anxiously awaiting the distribution of cards from a shoebox wrapped in red foil. We could count on getting valentines from our girlfriends. Maybe […]
Rice Chex cereal has always been 100 percent rice, but now it boasts that it’s gluten-free. It never had gluten. But now that gluten is on the no-fly list, being gluten-free is a bragging point. […]
We’re Jewish. Our husbands are Jewish and our kids are Jewish. We’ve been Jewish for thousands of years. It’s not news to us that we don’t celebrate Christmas. We’ve never had a Christmas tree. Never cooked a holiday ham. […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. They say you spend one-third of your life sleeping, but some days we feel like we spend the other two-thirds of […]
By The Word Mavens We’re in the midst of the “fall holiday season,” the time of year when we’re stashing away the plastic skeleton that was taped to our light post and trying to avoid […]