My husband’s making me put this soundbite on my blog! I was discussing my depression and my lack of 401K with him when he interrupted and asked me if I was going to be published in a prominent Jewish newspaper. I told him not to get his hopes up. In fact, I went in further… Continue reading On Freelance Writing
I rarely buy hardcover books by unknown authors. It’s only for the steady stream of authors I’ve come to love that I’m willing to fork over hardcover prices. But then my friend in Atlanta told me about “My Jesus Year.” She couldn’t put it down and she couldn’t stop laughing, she said. The author, Benyamin… Continue reading My Jesus Year
Things don’t have to be as complicated as “Friends.” Here’s a new piece I’m working on. I hope I’ll find a place to publish it. I think it definitely has an audience in fellow converts, baalei teshuva, and basically those of us who have had more experience in the non-Orthodox, not Jewish world. I had… Continue reading Girl Meets Boy for Unhappily Ever After
Daddy’s Little Girl is a “short story,” really a short memoir, I wrote about visiting my father in the Dominican Republic after nearly ten years of being estranged. It has been published by the literary magazine, Verdad Magazine. Verdad, by the way, means “truth” in Spanish. It’s interesting to have my little story about the… Continue reading Daddy’s Little Girl Published in Verdad Magazine
Attended my first poetry reading today. My husband was reading two of his poems at the first ever Riverdale Writers Reading Series at the Riverdale Y. Too tired to write anything more than a short summary: Poetry reading, good. Ugga ugga.
One of my big dreams is to get something in the NY Times Modern Love section. So far, I’ve submitted my best essay ever and received a really great rejection letter. I was just catching up on the section when I spotted the essay, I Measured My Commitment in Carats. It’s about a family dispute… Continue reading The Carat Commitment
I just got a hard copy of The Jewish Chronicle via Air Mail of “My Uterus is None of Your Business.” Check out the hysterical cartoon!
“My Uterus is None of Your Business” has made its way to BeyondBT, a blog for baalei teshuva the world over. Check it out. You can post your comments to the article there or read up on the many, varied comments from other readers. Right now, there seems to be an ongoing debate of my… Continue reading Because a Baal Teshuva is a Convert’s Best Friend
So, I was recently on Facebook when one of my readers decided to start instant messaging me. In her defense, I did post a link to my Facebook profile on my blog. So, it should have been okay, right? Um, right. But it wasn’t. Though I tried to keep up the conversation, I felt more… Continue reading Close Encounters of the Weird Kind
“My Uterus is None of Your Business” is my latest piece published in The Jewish Chronicle of London.
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