Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
Awareness through Movement
What we learn from observing babies in motion. My granddaughter recently celebrated her first birthday. She lives in Los Angeles with my daughter and son-in-law and two small dogs she does her best…
A Tattered Dress, Three Handfuls of Pecans, and a Braid of Hair
How an embroidered cotton sack filled with three items would become the shortest slave narrative in existence. Picture a woman named Rose, Black and enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, pre-Civil War times….
Dear Diary No More
What began as a way to escape family noise came to an end when I found my true voice as a writer. Tucked away on the very top shelf of my closet is…
Jane Austen, My iPhone, and Lessons in Perspective
These days find me craving Jane Austen. Reading a Jane Austen novel at any given time is its own kind of joy. In an instant I’m pulled into a world, if not a…
Come September
A time when nostalgia becomes a season all its own. Late August in the Northeast. Crisp mornings, cooler than usual, the light noticeably shifting in its dance with time. Summer is…
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…
