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Taking a Leap of Faith – the Choice to Go Waldorf 27 Jul 2013 | 10:59 pm
By the time our son was in pre-school, we already knew that we didn’t want to send him to a regular public school. My husband grew up in the Israeli school system and didn’t like the way it had evolve...
Sanity is Overrated 15 Jul 2013 | 11:48 am
Sometimes I feel like I’m just hanging by a thread Sanity lost in a roadside ditch – barely breathing, left for dead Scattered bits of mind and soul where brake marks should have been Attesting to the...
What’s the rush? 10 Jul 2013 | 01:39 pm
Introduction I would like to make a distinction that I think is not emphasized enough in today’s society — the distinction between Information Availability and Information Accessibility. Information A...
The Elephant in the Room 7 Jul 2013 | 11:25 am
While the sun shined overhead and my husband tidied up the gravesite, our seven-year-old started to sing a silly song. As I gently explained why a cemetery wasn’t really the place for such activity, h...
The Mother Who Cried Porn 20 Jun 2013 | 01:30 pm
After picking my nine-year-old son up from school the other day, I asked him to sit next to me on the couch. I told him I loved him, reminded him that I would never be angry at him for being honest an...
From Blogs to Pitches: The Accidental Birth of a Freelance Writer 14 Jun 2013 | 10:52 am
Whiling the hours away at home during my son’s high-risk pregnancy, I started a blog. My friend Ashley talked me into it, and as I recall, it didn’t take too much convincing. As a technical writer I d...
Birthday Candles on 45 5 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
There’s something about my birthday drawing near that always makes me feel like putting the proverbial pen to paper to do a bit of soul-searching. In 2009, it resulted in a blog post about musical inf...
A Friend Who Gets it All 7 May 2013 | 06:20 pm
When I heard that the wife of one of my brother’s oldest friends had lost a child, I sent a carefully worded email to her husband, asking if Stacey might want to talk to someone who had been through s...
Inspiring and Empowering – My latest story for Essence Magazine 8 Apr 2013 | 09:41 pm
Several weeks prior to Passover, my editor at Haaretz contacted me with a story assignment – profiling several Israeli women’s organizations in order to mark International Women’s Day. We compiled a l...
I want to get lost with you 5 Mar 2013 | 02:45 pm
I want to get lost with you At that moment when the sun goes down Colors dance without a sound Across the sky and I am found By love and wishes made On stars that shine as sunlight fades Fingers touch...
