by Sarah Zadok | Jan 28, 2019 | Life Lessons, Personal Development
My first claustrophobic experience happened when I was pregnant with my 5th child while army crawling on my belly through a dark cave in the Ella Valley. I know, I was as shocked as you are. I remember the guide saying, “Ma’am, I don’t think...
by Sarah Zadok | May 4, 2016 | Life Lessons, Personal Narrative
Sirens blared throughout Israel today for National Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its rise is not subtle, no foreplay. Within a second flat, there is no space between my ears for anything else. A flash flood of feelings storm in me with the siren’s ring – it...
by Sarah Zadok | Jan 21, 2016 | Life Lessons
It’s not every day that an average citizen gets the opportunity to be first to respond at a major car accident, but such was my lot last Wednesday afternoon. I was first on scene and among the last to leave. I had just finished an intense and productive meeting with...
by Sarah Zadok | Nov 22, 2015 | Life Lessons, Music and G-d, The Mother-load
To my daughters, I’ve loved you since before you were even plausible. I’m doing my best to raise you right. So, before you lift your sweet, adolescent hands to your head and encase your impressionable ears to the candy-crushing pull of pop music, I need you to hear...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 16, 2015 | Life Lessons, Personal Development, Unity
It wasn’t hard to tell that something was a little different about her. The jean skirt, deep cut, pink V-neck sweater, heels and turquoise hand bag were immediately overshadowed by a deeply masculine voice and a thick, strong hand as she reached out to shake mine. The...
by Sarah Zadok | May 10, 2015 | Life Lessons, Personal Narrative
I’m on my way to get an ultrasound. Of my boobs. I am trying to stay cool and collected, and remember the doc’s emphasis about this being a “precautionary measure just to confirm that everything is fine,” but my heart has gone rogue and abandoned rationale in favor of...