Devorah Blachor
1964 * Barbie gets a bubblecut hair style and her best friend Midge snags a boyfriend, Alan. * Hillary has a coiffed flip and volunteers for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. 1967 * Twist n’ Turn Barbie has a new mod look in a two-piece orange plastic swimsuit. * Hillary grows her hair long and […]
Barbie just got a makeover. In Time Magazine, Mattel announced that the doll – once frozen in time like a carbonite Marilyn Monroe only skinnier – will now come in different sizes and skin tones. Some are saying the change comes too late but I for one am happy. I tried my best to raise […]
Last month, Grace, a memoirist from Fort Greene, was having brunch with some of her colleagues. One of them—an attractive LA transplant named Sofia who layers her clothing in that elusive way you can never carry off—mentioned that she and her boyfriend were thinking about trying to get pregnant. Everyone congratulated her and ordered a […]
“We definitely aren’t in Kansas anymore,” I told my husband. I was showing him “Jesus’ Christmas Party,” the school library book my daughter brought home in early December. By Kansas, I meant Israel. I lived there for more than 20 years and my two children were born in Jerusalem. This summer, we moved our family […]
During the first kiss She’s done a good job here above her upper lip. Does she bleach or tweeze or thread, I wonder? Or is this a laser job? Can you believe they can actually destroy the roots with strong beams of light? Science! Wait a minute — I can see some foundation caught in […]
1. While you were asking her to find your Lego Ninjago sword, she was draining the pasta and scalding her arm with boiling water. 2. When you were ready to start your sock puppet show, she was on the phone with the cell phone company and had been put on hold. 3. As you shouted, […]