DIY
My garden is miles from manicured, nor is it pedicured. It will never appear in any magazine — except, apparently, the one you’re holding in your hands
Sister Shmooze
While we do use Waze, we’re less than impressed with the idea that technology has made getting lost obsolete. People can still get lost
I dare me
To get my feet wet, I decide to leave the largest donors for the end and start with the low-hanging fruit, like my grandmother
Fiction
This is a good chance to test out her teacher’s concerns. I watch her closely for signs of not hearing, or misunderstanding, as I launch into storyteller mode
Windows
When you’re not thinking about it, there’s restlessness and emptiness in your being. You turn the music up loud just to feel something beat in you
Map the Starlight
In the center is Jerusalem, with a verse from Psalms: “Joy of the world.” He takes a breath. It is exquisite
Center Stage
She looked so beautiful when she smiled like that. With an actual sparkle in her eyes. Why didn’t she do so more often?
On the House
There’s nothing wrong with adding a sushi bar, and other things, but you do realize that our hottest menu items were traditional, old-fashioned foods
LifeTakes
We got busy with summer and vacation plans and sometime when we weren’t looking the red plant grew. It crept along the wall, hugging the fence
Family Diary
The chassan-kallah relationship is so fragile in the beginning, and that first piece of jewelry seems to be more significant than the Duchess of Windsor’s whole collection
Normal Like Me
“My children will not go to school. We don’t need school,” he kept saying. “The white man has nothing to teach us”
Shared Space
“Listen Kivi, this will be whatever you make of it, it’s an opportunity and you have to decide whether to grab it”
LifeLines
I remember sitting at the Seder table with my husband, Yehoshua, that year and exclaiming, “I can’t believe it! Our first Pesach, and we’re all alone!”
