Last week, the local paper, The Riverdale Press contacted me for an interview. Somehow, they had stumbled upon my blog. During the really-early-in-the-morning interview, I hoped that I wouldn’t embarrass myself too much. Mostly, I didn’t. Check out: “Blogger chronicles her Catholic past, Jewish present”
Who said adopting a new religion and culture was easy? I sure didn’t. Sometimes, it’s actually quite embarrassing. And by “it,” I mean me! Check out: “Inappropriate for the Shabbos Table”
As usual I am floored by the responses to my writing, especially the responses to my piece on Aish.com. Unfortunately, some more than others. “David K , August 6, 2009: Easy for me to say but please try to love your mother. Any person with such mental illness needs love.” Right, uh, what? Why is… Continue reading Honoring Yourself, Children (But not Child Abusers)
If you couldn’t get enough of my piece in last week’s Jewish Journal, then you can see it again at the Tolerant Nation blog “Thoughts on Race and Gates” and on Jewlicious. In case you don’t have the Jewish Journal in front of you, here are the Letters they received in response to my piece last week.… Continue reading Reprint: Thoughts on Race and Gates
Check out my latest piece in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles: “A Lesson for Jews in Gates’ Arrest?”
Can I tell you how much I love Junot Diaz? I never would have thought a book about a Dominican-American geek (“The Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”) win the Pulitzer Prize. It wasn’t even until college that I knew there were Hispanic American authors writing stories that felt like they could have been… Continue reading My Favorite Dominican (After my little sisters, of course)
Is there an art to Tweeting profoundly? (Tweeting is posting to Twitter. Twitter is microblogging at 140 characters or less.) Apparently, The Jewish Channel thinks I got it. For the second week in a row, I’ve made it onto the list of “Most Profound Tweets in Jewish History”. To check out last week’s: click here.
Here’s something I wrote last week…. Lately, I’ve been too depressed to write. I can’t get motivated to write my book. I can’t get motivated to write any new articles. Mostly, I can’t get motivated. Sometimes, I wonder what life would be like if I wasn’t depressed. But I can’t remember if there was ever… Continue reading D is for Depression
My husband has decided that this is the summer I’m going to learn to drive. Actually, he decided I was going to learn to drive last summer but I came up with plenty of excuses. I managed to go a whole year without every picking up that DMV manual. This year, my husband got smart… Continue reading Driving Miss Crazy: Why I Cut Class, Cried All Afternoon and You know, Other Stuff…
You might have noticed that when you comment on my blog posts, it does not go into moderation. This is because, for the most part unless something is truly vile, I have let people share their thoughts, disagreeable or otherwise, on my blog. I read each and every comment though I do not, cannot, respond… Continue reading Commenting on my blog
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 