by admin | Sep 25, 2019 | Personal Narrative
It was a big year. 42 was the year I made the decision to leave my job. A dream job in a lot of ways (not so much in other ways). At 42 I made the choice to leave steady employment in order to reconnect with my life outside of work; as much a leap as it was...
by admin | 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 admin | Jul 26, 2015 | Personal Narrative
My son almost got hit by a car tonight. (Breathe Mom, I said almost. He’s fine, I promise). We were leaving a friend’s house after a very sweet shabbat meal. We were a big group; me and 8 kids, it was dark – the tippy-tail end of shabbat- and we were...
by admin | Jul 10, 2015 | Personal Narrative
Have an awesome kid. Raise her right. Instill good values. Sweeten her Torah. Show her what is Ahavat Israel really means. Allow her plenty of opportunities to see herself the way that you, her loving parents, see her. Ask bat mitzvah girl what she wants to do. Do...
by admin | 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...
by admin | Apr 14, 2015 | Israel, Personal Narrative, Rebuilding
Today is a fortunate day for people like me who chose this life and this land from outside of her soil. I have lost neither son nor spouse in the field or on a bus ride home. I am a new-comer to this land, 16 years this June, my children have not yet served, my...
