Do you feel weird interviewing yourself? Um, not really.
Mothers, Daughters, Orthodox Judaism, and Forgiveness
Talking w/ Arts Desk about my Jewish upbringing, women in the faith, and learning to forgive.
The Meaning of Dara
Dara Torres. Dara Torres. God, it would be so easy to hate her. Let’s start with the abs that defy nature...
I Was a Mean Girl: I Got My Revenge, 20 Years Later
I was a grown woman when I outmeaned the meanest girl in my elementary school, a cheerleader with brilliant blue eyes and slightly bucked teeth...
My Spiritual Fitness Regimen
Instead of focusing on dieting before my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I decided to get in shape emotionally.
First Person: Crossing Bradley Boulevard
For my sister-in-law, this intersection is about more than walk and don’t walk.
Book Club Envy: A Love Letter to Book Groups
I have a bad case of book club envy. None of my dozen or so ex-book clubs exist any longer.
How My Grandmother’s Cookbook Made Me a Writer
On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Me
It began with a glance. I was walking out of Barnes & Noble on a warm May afternoon when I spotted him, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, or, shall I say, his four-disc audio book...
Forgiveness Means Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Hard Crusts We Build...
I’m knee-deep into what promises to be a fifty-plus gig book tour...
A Prayer for the Nameless
Each Yom Kippur our rabbi invites a few congregants to write a prayer leading up to the Yizkor Memorial service.
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Hair
“You’re going to talk about hair? For two hours?” my mother said after I told her I’d been invited to co-facilitate a Lilith Salon...
A Hand Through the Mechitza
My family is hitting the b’nai mitzvah circuit hard these days.
On Saying Kaddish Over Zoom
My mother died four days into 2021. Zoom burial, Zoom shiva, and now, Zoom kaddish...
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My 5 favorite books about addiction.
Essay published on shepherd.com
The TNB Self-Interview
Do you feel weird interviewing yourself? Um, not really.
Mothers, Daughters, Orthodox Judaism, and Forgiveness
Talking w/ Arts Desk about my Jewish upbringing, women in the faith, and learning to forgive.
The Meaning of Dara
Dara Torres. Dara Torres. God, it would be so easy to hate her. Let’s start with the abs that defy nature...
I Was a Mean Girl: I Got My Revenge, 20 Years Later
I was a grown woman when I outmeaned the meanest girl in my elementary school, a cheerleader with brilliant blue eyes and slightly bucked teeth...
My Spiritual Fitness Regimen
Instead of focusing on dieting before my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I decided to get in shape emotionally.
First Person: Crossing Bradley Boulevard
For my sister-in-law, this intersection is about more than walk and don’t walk.
Book Club Envy: A Love Letter to Book Groups
I have a bad case of book club envy. None of my dozen or so ex-book clubs exist any longer.
How My Grandmother’s Cookbook Made Me a Writer
On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Me
It began with a glance. I was walking out of Barnes & Noble on a warm May afternoon when I spotted him, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, or, shall I say, his four-disc audio book...
Forgiveness Means Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Hard Crusts We Build...
I’m knee-deep into what promises to be a fifty-plus gig book tour...
A Prayer for the Nameless
Each Yom Kippur our rabbi invites a few congregants to write a prayer leading up to the Yizkor Memorial service.
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Hair
“You’re going to talk about hair? For two hours?” my mother said after I told her I’d been invited to co-facilitate a Lilith Salon...
A Hand Through the Mechitza
My family is hitting the b’nai mitzvah circuit hard these days.
On Saying Kaddish Over Zoom
My mother died four days into 2021. Zoom burial, Zoom shiva, and now, Zoom kaddish...
