How many difficult moments have you faced — and then risen above them with every ounce of self-control you could muster?
It’s strange how all the tactless comments and stares and annoying advice never made me flinch, but this pinches me inside and leaves me feeling vaguely unsettled
Zeidy extracts several colored dreidels and everyone scrambles into place
Every year I am a little bit sad on that first day as my children go off to a new year
Eleven months a year, I’m a staunch city girl…But come July, and I am transformed into a country girl
I was nearly ten years old, and some of my friends were signed up for sleepaway camp. To my limited knowledge, there was only one religious camp that we Chicago kids could attend: Camp Moshava. But my parents never sent me. Was it the expense? We were four children and my mother stayed at home
