A New Way of Feeling
Love is a form of sweet labor -- fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary...
Cake Decorating is a Construct
Open conversation class often teaches that topics can be more illuminating when your vocabulary is limited. For example, several months...
The Price of Salt
"A Thursday evening?" "Ok. Now the next difficult thing. . . time and place?" I paused. I considered the kinds of interesting things...
Two Books: An Introduction Part VIII
The email came. Its title read, "What has Passover meant to you this year?" I clicked to reveal more questions inside, "What bonds are...
Tied Up
I am a library builder. For over 10 years, I created, crafted and curated libraries, usually the kind without walls. It's not often. ...
Character (Traits): A careful definition
"The most careful thing is to dare." -Shimon Peres My goal this year was to fly. Not literally, fly, but the imagining of it. I would...
Being Present-National Poetry Month
It is easy to forget that where you are is where you need to be. The past two weeks were the first large edit of my new novel in verse. ...
Living Conditions
When I drive through town, sometimes I flinch. The crumpled brown up ahead. What is it? Could it be? How could it be anything but. ....
Una(custom)ed to Your story
Saturday was Purim, but my family dressed up all week. Old costumes. Cobbled together costumes. Hand me down costumes. Almost not a...
Choosing the Right Top(ic)s
Staring into my closet each week, I might lament, "I have nothing to wear.” Still, it's more likely I would wonder, "What haven't I worn...
