Bookends
My son, my first child, was born at the end of 1997. Four months later, nearly to the day, my mom died. That same son, now 18, graduated from high school last Saturday. Two days later, my dad died. Bookends: “occur or be positioned at the end or on either side of...
Slow
I like to get things done fast. Like quickly. And efficiently. Without delay. I read fast. I eat fast. I talk fast. I think fast (too fast, sometimes). I understand fast and I explain fast. My way doesn’t embrace the impatient among us. I’m not good at...
My Upcoming Book Profiled
Read this profile on my upcoming book on “3Gs,” or grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.Reporter Matt Lebovic did a beautiful job of bringing together all of the components of my story, and of the larger story of my generation and three generations in the...
I Have A Beautiful Smile
Yes, that is the truth. I have a really nice smile. Beautiful, in fact.People I don’t know tell me this fairly regularly. In fact, I am told this in the majority of instances in which I am connecting with someone face-to-face, and smiling. I don’t do a ton...
Today I am 41
Today I am 41. (<— This is what 41 looks like.) My morning pages earlier today focused on what this past year has been like for me. It has been a monumental period. There has been massive change and transformation in me, for me, by me. How I have loved and...
