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A few weeks ago, I took my daughter out for lunch - some quality, special Mommy and Me time. There weren’t many customers in the restaurant. But the women at the table near us were loud enough for the entire restaurant to hear. My daughter begged me to ask the waiter to put on music to drown them out because she didn’t want to hear them talk during our lunch.

Sometimes I receive emails that share a common theme. For the past few weeks, I’ve received at least one email a week regarding this topic. I’m going to address it from both sides: male and female. Two letters, one from a male and one from a female, share the same theme, and my response can be applied to both.

I’m not the greatest when it comes to being “up with social media.” I know of popular influencers, but I don’t listen to podcasts or subscribe to channels or anything like that. So, I would never know of this topic if it didn’t make it into mainstream media. Apparently, a huge social influencer named Alix Earle went on a podcast (could’ve been her own, but I wouldn’t know) and proclaimed that she had never read a book, with the exception of the exceptional Dr. Seuss. She called reading books a Gen Z thing. She wasn’t embarrassed about this either. She is wearing it like a badge of honor.

Everyone in the Staum family knows that Uncle Yitz is 38 years old and is turning 39 on his birthday.

Uncle Yitz is my father’s older brother. He and my Aunt Chaya are blessed with many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dear Goldy,

I’m 30. I’m not old or young. I’m not desperate either. I like my age, my life—job, friends… But like everyone else, I want to get married. I can’t say that I go out every week or every other week with someone new. Sometimes there are no calls for months, and then sometimes calls come all at once.

On Purim afternoon, when I entered the home of a friend to give him mishloach manos, there were a few women talking, one of whom was wearing a homemade hat with a propeller on top that had the words “helicopter parent” beneath it. When she saw me looking at it and laughing, she told me that her mother had long accused her of being a helicopter mom, and now she finally decided to just embrace it.