Author Archives: Jill Foer Hirsch

Oui! L’Awkward

You know how sometimes dinner parties can be awkward because no one is talking?  I’m not terribly familiar because I never stop yapping, but I did once sit through the most awkward of awkward dinners. We took each of the … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Sean!

My nephew Sean turns 20 today. He is the youngest of the children and has suffered some abuse at the hands of his older siblings. No one understands that better than I do with two older brothers and no younger … Continue reading

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Poetic Snow Job

I’ve always believed being a TV weather person (not a fancy meteorologist) would be a lot of fun.  I could cheerfully report sunny weather or gravely report armageddon from an important looking Storm Center.  I could point to China on … Continue reading

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The Really, Really Long Way Home

Where were we?  Ah yes, a packed train filled with hungry, thirsty beasts.  I was breathing easy because we’d been going for a while without incident.  Oh, the cruel winds of fate.  (Was that too dramatic?)  We were in the … Continue reading

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Take The Long Way Home

In general Dan and I have been blessed with good travel karma.  Other than the lost luggage in Moscow and one or two other mishaps, things tend to go well for us.  It was nice while it lasted, but one … Continue reading

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Uncle Cousin and Aunt Neurotic

Many years ago Dan’s rank in the family was pushed down a notch. We were all settling in to the Outer Banks beach house we rented for a week each summer; me, Dan, CJ, Lisa and the three kids.  The … Continue reading

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Truth Revealed! Page 201

Not to beat a dead horse, but apparently some of you are still uncomfortable taking diet advice from someone such as me.  That’s OK.  But where will you turn?  Do you think the answers are buried in the pages of glossy … Continue reading

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To Wait Or Not To Weight?

Happy New Year everyone!  It’s hard to believe it’s 2013; it seems like just yesterday we were partying like it was 1999.  This morning we all woke up facing a new year, a year full of possibilities of everything we … Continue reading

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The Day Before The Night

Sandra Bernhard was certainly the highlight of our visit to NY, but we had an action-packed day before we got to the show. Being NY, there was no shortage of strange agents.  We went to the theatre for a matinée; … Continue reading

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A Night To Remember

What a night!  We arrived way too early because we intended to get a bite to eat before the show (of course I intend to get a bite to eat before and after anything I do) but it was freezing … Continue reading

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