This year on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Twitter account shared pictures of Holocaust victims who had been turned away by the United States. The thing you notice when you look at pictures like this is how normal everyone looks. These are not people...
Yesterday was a bad day to be a work from home freelancer. I have two projects due at the end of the week. But, before I knew that I'd have two projects with the same deadline, I made an appointment to go see a caterer about my daughter's bat mitzvah brunch. This was...
Some of my favorite memories from childhood are from sick days. I don't mean the older, hold a heating pad up to the thermometer so that you can skip school and get stoned sick days. What I loved were the younger sick days, when I was actually sick. Those days when my...
On Rosh Hashana we read the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of Isaac. It is a difficult story to understand. Previously we've been told how wanted and loved Isaac is. A late in life baby for his parents, their only child together, he is his father's favorite....
The number of children I parent has been changing a lot lately. Normally, I have two - a ten year old and a twelve year old. For a few days recently I had five - my two, a six year old, an eleven year old, and a thirteen year old - all cousins. Then, I had my two and...
I have a theory about how normal people deal with other people's tragedies. I'm not a psychologist, but here it is: Step 1: You hear that a horrible tragedy has befallen someone you don't know. Step 2: You feel a sense of shock and horror. Step 3: You look for a...