I identify with a lot of people. I identify with the handicapped, Hispanics, women, and now, of course, Orthodox Jews. I used to overlook the handicapped and the Jews since these pieces weren’t always part of my identity. And now, I sit here, while I should be doing yoga, heading to the shower and getting… Continue reading The World in Frum-Colored Glasses
Somehow, the publisher whose contract I have yet to return has decided that my book is tentatively called: Black. Latino. Jewish: Choosing to be Jewish. People, help! Vote on something. Make up your own. Help. They obviously want to work in the multicultural angle. American. Dominican. Jewish.: Becoming Jewish in a Multicultural World BEFORE &… Continue reading Judge a book by its cover
I guess I survived the interview process if he’s sending me a contract. Hubbie thinks the publisher is underestimating my writing ability, I think Hubbie is overestimating. Now, a case of nerves. I am exhausted. Jetlagged from flying to Berkeley and back for an extended weekend, exhausted from one too many fibromyalgia flare-ups, underexercised and… Continue reading He’s sending me a contract
Notes from The Ten Commandments According to Mom: Ah, so I’m dying to submit my writing for this; THINGS I’D NEVER Tell My Mother. Seeking first-person, nonfiction essays exploring actions, thoughts, or feelings you would never share with your mother. Can be from childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. Humorous to heartbreaking. We especially need humor writing… Continue reading The Ten Commandments According to Mom
Okay, I have fallen behind on blogging. That’s because I’ve been busy. Busy, you say? First things, first here are a couple of tititaling tidbits from the last couple of days. I finally finished the book the publisher, who’s interested in publishing a memoir of my conversion, sent me. If you haven’t been keeping track,… Continue reading Update on Publisher
“White people sensitivity training” was a subject that came up in conversation the other day amongst my friends. We were really discussing how people from disparate cultures, classes and backgrounds can react in a “peculiar” way to different situations. Sometimes, the disconnect between two groups of people is so unsurmountable that they might need “(insert… Continue reading White People Sensitivity Training
Oy, another deadline missed. I mean, if I can’t make a self-imposed deadline…! My husband is grumpy. It’s 12:22am and he wants me to come to bed. Something about me being a workaholic. Lots of guilt, etc. I woke up this morning and ran to the post office, then the bank and then off to… Continue reading Just one of those days
I thought growing up that I was depressed. Life was pretty depressing between the psychotic mom, the deadbeat dad, the suicidal siblings and the pooping/screaming baby half-sister whose pseudo-mom I had become as soon as she popped out. (Hold on while I yell at my husband. Dammit, yes, I ate all the chocolates, yes, I… Continue reading The Blues
So, I finally got around to calling this publisher who read my article in Yeshiva University’s Kol Hamevaser. What in the world would the vice president of a Jewish publishing company want to discuss with little old me? Well, let’s just say that when I told one of my favorite authors (who I annoy with… Continue reading Earth-shattering news!
Hello from Jerusalem where I have continually assured friends who have been emailing me that we are far from the missiles being launched into Northern Israel. These are not words that I ever imagined having to formulate. It would seem that Israel is at war and all of us are on the edge of our… Continue reading War, Conversion, Modern Orthodoxy, etc.
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