Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING is a vignette from my forthcoming memoir, Angels on the Clothesline. Publication April 2023. In Angels on the Clothesline, I bridge time to be the compassionate presence missing from my childhood. I witness the deeply painful experiences and the...
RECESS. Bullying and Resistance on a Playground
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Being bullied was a significant (to put in mildly) part of my childhood. Being bullied and shamed was my everyday experience in a public school where no one had ever known a Jew before. My hair was searched daily for...
GOING DEEPER: An Intimate Conversation (Part One)
It was my honor and pleasure to be Marcie Sclove’s guest on her inspiring program “Going Deeper.” Marcie’s questions (which she had not shared in advance), led me into surprising territory, replete with spontaneity, vulnerability, memory,...
Vigil of Light
What right did I have to happiness in the face of the nightmarish brutality my parents had faced in the Holocaust, and given the ongoing injustices suffered by countless others throughout the world?
