#NoMoreFakebook

Time to present a family portrait that is less shiny, less happy, more honest, and more healthy

So, according to Facebook, this is how I spent my Shabbat with the kids:

My children and I woke up with the sun, smiling and ready to kick ass and “make it a great day.”

My hair was shiny. My smile, too.

I wore my hooker boots.

We drank our morning drinks in latte cups – frothy foam mustaches lacing our lips.

We played Sheshbesh, our skin mottled by drops of shade in the morning light.

We went for a walk in the orchards on the kibbutz, and we danced between emerald leaves like fairies.

We rocked out to Red Hot Chili Peppers.

‘Cuz that’s how we roll: Just another day being totally awesome.

And while all of this is basically true, I’m also full of shit.

Here’s what really went down. .

About the Author

Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered and the New Media Editor at Times of Israel. She was raised in Venice Beach, California on Yiddish lullabies and Civil Rights anthems, and she now lives in Jerusalem with her 3 kids where she climbs roofs, explores cisterns, opens secret doors, talks to strangers, and writes stories about people — especially taxi drivers. Sarah also speaks before audiences left, right, and center through the Jewish Speakers Bureau, asking them to wrestle with important questions while celebrating their willingness to do so. She loves whisky and tacos and chocolate chip cookies and old maps and foreign coins and discovering new ideas from different perspectives. Sarah is a work in progress.