Writings

article, faith

The Forward

My mother died four days into 2021. Zoom burial, Zoom shiva, and now, Zoom kaddish... READ

article, writing

Scoundrel Time

Was this really going to work? We were so far apart. READ

article

Lilith

On day nine of Governor Hogan’s quarantine, I embarked upon a journey to find yeast. READ

writing

San Francisco Book Review

I have a bad case of book club envy. None of my dozen or so ex-book clubs exist any longer. READ.

faith

Lilith

Each Yom Kippur our rabbi invites a few congregants to write a prayer leading up to the Yizkor Memorial service. READ

article

LitHub

On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World. READ

article

Lilith

I’m knee-deep into what promises to be a fifty-plus gig book tour. After spending seven years writing... I’m out of my house. READ

faith, article

Lilith

My family is hitting the b’nai mitzvah circuit hard these days. READ

writing

Washingtonian

For my sister-in-law, this intersection is about more than walk and don’t walk. READ

article

Lilith

“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... READ

writing

Lilith

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, The Power of Positive Thinking... READ

article

Tablet Magazine

Instead of focusing on dieting before my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I decided to get in shape emotionally. READ

writing

Slate

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... READ

swimming, blog

Utopia

Dara Torres. Dara Torres. God, it would be so easy to hate her. Let’s start with the abs that defy nature, maddening proof that a 41-year-old mother can successfully model a bikini. READ