Writings

writing

Frankly Feminist Anthology
Lilith Magazine
"Sylvia's Spoon," my first published story was featured anthology of short stories by Jewish women. READ MORE.

article, faith

On Saying Kaddish Over Zoom
The Forward
My mother died four days into 2021. Zoom burial, Zoom shiva, and now, Zoom kaddish... READ

writing

Book Club Envy: A Love Letter to Book Groups
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

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

article

How My Grandmother’s Cookbook Made Me a Writer
LitHub
On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World. READ

article

Forgiveness Means Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Hard Crusts We Build...
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

A Hand Through the Mechitza
Lilith
My family is hitting the b’nai mitzvah circuit hard these days. READ

writing

First Person: Crossing Bradley Boulevard
Washingtonian
For my sister-in-law, this intersection is about more than walk and don’t walk. READ

article

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Hair
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

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Me
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

My Spiritual Fitness Regimen
Tablet Magazine
Instead of focusing on dieting before my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I decided to get in shape emotionally. READ

writing

I Was a Mean Girl: I Got My Revenge, 20 Years Later
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

The Meaning of Dara
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