We spent last week in Florida, the long-awaited, much-planned-for trip to Disney World I’d been saving to take my kids on. They would’ve been happier just sitting at the pool all week and watching movies in the condo when it … Continue reading
“Out of your mouth, printed.” That’s what my dad always said, an admonishment to think before speaking and realize that everything spoken is forever out there, never to be taken back and tucked into a pocket. That’s the power of … Continue reading
In times of need and in times of calm, you can really see who a friend is and who is not. When someone dies, people process it, own it, claim it, elbow their way into the center of the grieving. … Continue reading
It surprises me how much I identify with the physical self. We all do. And it was after reading a MORE magazine article about women in mid-life mourning the loss of their younger selves (the hair, the body, the skin, … Continue reading
And so it was with introspection and reckoning that I attended Rabbi Rachel Shere’s Torah study this morning at Adat Shalom Synagogue. She took a magnifying glass to the 10 Commandments and asked, “Is the first commandment even a commandment?” … Continue reading