I am taking two online writing classes through Gotham Writer’s Workshop, Reading Fiction POV and Memoir Writing I. I thought I could be sneaky and use my homework over there as blog posts over here. Well, at least the stuff that’s already been graded and the teacher has told me clearly isn’t awful. The assignments… Continue reading Photographic memory
Hello, little blog, I have clawed my way through hours of writing for my book, for homework (for my online classes at Gotham Writer’s Workshop) and in response to emails from readers and I have found my way back to you. My trip to Los Angeles is almost over. I’m multitasking by packing and writing.… Continue reading Wrapping up
My latest piece, “Air Hugs: Fibromyalgia and the Power of Touch” is now up on Chabad.org. The piece focuses on what my battle with fibromyalgia taught me about touch. It also gives the reader information about fibromyalgia and how I’ve learned to cope with it.
Interfaithfamily.com just reprinted an article of mine from PresenTense Magazine. Check out: Converts on the True Colors of the Jewish Community. “Do Jews who negatively react to my skin color forget that they were once slaves in Egypt and strangers in another land?” Rapper Y-Love (aka Yitzchak Jordan) was interviewed for the piece.
A favorite author of mine who’s been keeping me up these late nights is Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpa Lahiri. I would like to pretend that I alone discovered this national treasure but the fact that her most recent collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list… Continue reading When I grow up…
Here is my latest piece for Interfaithfamily.com. I’m posting it before it’s published on the web and will eventually replace this text with a link to the website: A Nation Divided: Coping with Racism in the Jewish Community “So where you from?” they ask. “New York,” I say. “No, really. Where you from?” “New York!”… Continue reading A Nation Divided: Coping with Racism in the Jewish Community
I just picked up In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People by Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin & Scott Rubin. Currently, I’m reading the chapter called “Feet in Many Rivers: Navigating Multiple Identities.” There were many other interesting chapters I could have started with but this one drew me in… Continue reading Jews come in all shapes, colors and sizes
The bed started shaking while I was lying leisurely in bed reading yet another book on writing. My first thought was to wonder what the hell those people downstairs were doing that could make my bed shake. Then I realized there were no people downstairs. There was no “downstairs,” I was on a first floor!… Continue reading Registering a 5.4 in Magnitude
Los platanos maduros (the ripe, fried plantains). My latest article, Gefilte Fish Con Maduros: A Multicultural Jewish Family, is currently at Interfaithfamily.com. Like the subheader notes, it’s about my multicultural Jewish family. The ups, the downs and everything in-between. I wonder if my husband realizes that in this scenario, he’s the gefilte fish. Hmm. Best… Continue reading Gefilte Fish Con Maduros
Here is an early draft of an essay I’m working on: It is the ten-year anniversary of that day. The day my life ended. The day my life began. Strewn about my dark, mahogany daybed like a broken doll, I lay writhing from the pain. My blackened, dirty feet poked out of my jeans and… Continue reading The Most Important Day of My Life
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