Eventually, we learn who Ivan’s mother’s mother is, and, while it’s never dramatized, that had to have been a truly traumatic childhood. I think we can understand why she decided to check out, even if obviously that’s not a great thing to do, and with a child, worse. I’m ...
How much of Dinah then and through the rest of childhood was interested in stereotypical girl-stuff, but backed away from it because it seemed like a fork in the road with books and exploring and getting muddy and building things down the other path? I invite her in behind the wall, ...
The menu also offers light bites like avocado toast drizzled with tahini cream, chocolate chip brioche and a popular childhood favourite with a twist — a toasty brioche with fresh strawberry jam, whipped ricotta and almond butter. Average cost for two: AED 125 Location: New York University Cam...
Sometimes, you want to re-create a childhood memory through food – but due to self-imposed limits on calories and fat health reasons, you attempt to slide in some creative substitutes, hoping for just the right hit of nostalgia without the full side order of guilt. One of those recipes ...
Sierra learns the hard way not to trust. Ben has been broken since childhood. Watching these two learn and grow lifts your spirits and keeps you on your toes. They will break your heart but as the story progresses they break your heart in a good way. I love the characters, Dylan is ...
We had a train to catch and only had 90 minutes in the museum, but this time I would have loved the extra time. I had naively not understood the magnitude of the devastation to the Jewish population in Poland in WWII was horrified to learn that 90% of Polish Jews were driven out or...
) and spent a year being teased about being stupid and how I “flunked.” I was teased by people who I now realize weren’t that smart, but they needed to feel good about themselves and I was an easy target. I spent a lot of my childhood by myself, reading or in “Imaginative pl...
while I’d get the Winnie the Pooh or whimsical animal characters. When our tree is covered in these memories and reminders of childhood, hobbies, and dreams, it is transformed into my absolute favorite Christmas tradition. Heck, we’ve gathered so many ornaments over the years they even have...
A childhood steeped in verbal, emotional and physical abuse. A mother plagued by her own abusive past that didn’t have the tools or skills to deal with a willful child and repeated the hurts and traumas. Being told “I don’t want you anymore.” Not worthy of love, not enough, too...
nurses and Trump supporters, he moved during high school and became a skater to make friends, he went to a public college and people in academia said snobby things to him about it, his childhood pet hamster died tragically at his birthday party, his student status had recently changed, etc...