What I’ll Miss
We wake up at the crack of dawn, elevator down to the lobby, walk out into the salty, breezy morning still carrying the faint scent of fried food, and smile to […]
Just Keep Swimming…
I’ve taken another hiatus and I apologize. I’ve yet to figure out a way to balance my fictional writing and blog writing. I seem to only be able to do […]
The Slow Way (or How I Eat a Pomegranate)
Pomegranates, with their crowned heads and bulging crimson bodies, have always signaled the beginning of fall in my household. Now living in Israel, this is more true than ever as […]
Vignettes
I. Trains move in all directions, but only one leaves the way we’re going. A man next to us finishes his day with a pint and a smoke by the tracks. It’s […]
How I Write
I don’t. For a long time. Not a single drop of ink leaves my pen. I stare out into the expanse of my mind where thoughts gather on the horizon, […]
Drawing at Night
I roll up two enormous pads of collected newsprint paper and shove the resulting tube into a plastic bag from, “Super Yuda,” which used to be called Super Baba, but […]
A Year Without Seasons
I was rollerblading on my driveway, singing the national anthem loudly (in my head), wearing the t-shirt leotard with buttons at the bottom which was popular in the day and shorts over […]
A Long Hiatus (to Learn and Grow)
I’ve been taken further away from familiarity’s bosom and deeper into life than I ever could have imagined. Moving across the ocean and becoming a mother has given me a new perspective […]
Sweet Saturday Morning
It’s not the sound of the lifeguard’s voice booming over the intercom system from the beach, shouting greeting and warnings in Hebrew and ending with a terse, “To-DA,” that wakes […]
As Natural as Water
We woke with the sun Saturday morning and walked out into a rosy eastward light where skyscrapers still mingled with the long, foggy tresses of the clouds. An abundance of […]
