Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
The Spirit of Judaism at Its Best, Antisemitism at Its Worst
Why the lynching of Leo Frank a century ago still haunts us. A couple of weeks ago, waiting to board our plane at LAX, my husband is approached by two bearded Orthodox Jewish…
Conversations with Myself
The mixed blessing of solitude. I spend a lot of time alone — taking walks by myself, meditating and doing yoga, writing and reading, listening to music. My husband spends most of his day…
Call Me Ma’am. Tell Me I’m in My Golden Years—
Just don’t say I’m elderly I know it’s silly. It’s just a word. But it hit me like a shock of cold water when a doctor described me as elderly in a message…
What’s in a name
How we get them, how they shape us A few weeks before giving birth to a baby girl, my daughter calls for a consult on the protocol of baby naming, Jewish-style. The Jewish…
Ghost Music
Finding my way back to the music I loved when I learned to play piano I’m sitting at my office desk, scrolling through emails, fingers in a kind of dance — Delete Delete Delete….
No Place like Home?
Variations on a theme sparked by wildfires My daughter lives in Los Angeles. She is seven months pregnant. When fire flared up in the Hollywood Hills, she and her husband took the precautionary…
