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…
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. As we waited in the airport for a flight back to Philadelphia, we glanced at our boarding passes and were pleasantly…
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. As our children get older, we miss some of the fun little kid things we used to do with them: visiting…
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. These days, we find ourselves losing things. We leave a half-full mug of coffee in the linen closet when we go…
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