I want to imagine that having panic attacks about getting my 10 month old into preschool at age 2-3 are unfounded but… Posted by Aliza M Hausman on Monday, February 8, 2016

When it takes eight years to have your first baby and you celebrate it just before your 9th anniversary, people don’t just wonder but actually, start to discuss your “fertility issues” with you. The problem is…there never were any. Most people can’t spell my condition, much less understand it. I get that. I look healthy… Continue reading Fertility and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

In case you were wondering what I was doing in 2015, I made this:   Little Israel. Thank you for all your love and support!

Inspired by Alissa, this is for my grandmother who I lost on Saturday, who I didn't even realize I'd lost as I walked… Posted by Aliza M Hausman on Wednesday, January 13, 2016

An interview I did with the Forward: For Many Converts, Bumpy Road to Mikveh Only Beginning of Woes Check it out.

I was at the beginning of my teaching career–after multiple career changes due to undiagnosed health reasons–when I had to stop working because of my fibromyalgia which was then diagnosed as Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I then tried to find work that worked around my condition but that proved futile and caused more pain and long-term… Continue reading Disability for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

A “L’Shana Tova” from ALL the Hausmans BIG and small! A happy, healthy and prosperous year to all! May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year. I don’t know about you but my wish for the new year already came true! With love, Aliza, Rabbi Yehuda and “Itsy Bitsy” Hausman

I know most people are preparing by Rosh Hashanah by making up menus and cooking up a storm and making sure they have tickets for services. (There are always free services for those who cannot afford to pay.) But this time of year, always brings back…bad memories. You see, during the High Holidays most synagogues… Continue reading Happy…oh, wait, you don’t belong here! Do you? On Being a Jewnited Nation

In Romeo and Juliet, my favorite poet and one of my favorite playwrights has dear Juliet say: What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet Babe, that’s because your parents weren’t Dominican and they named you Juliet. Okay, William Shakespeare named you Juliet but I digress. … Continue reading "What’s in a name?" on Shavuos

Belated for my great-grandmother’s first yarzheit (4/3/14): Charles W. Bartlett, “Hawaiian Mother and Child” It’s just a blip quote but my family thinks it’s hilarious that I ended up quoted in Good Housekeeping magazine. Okay, it IS kind of hilarious. The first thing people think when they think about me is NOT housekeeping, especially considering that awful… Continue reading The Good Housekeeping Quote: Complaining to a Friend Who Is Grieving