The End of the Story
Miss Reiner explains that Planning is what Real Authors do before they write, and Good Writers make a plan for their ...
Tag: Family Tempo
The Honey in the Batter
The recipe states “3 or 4 eggs,” but “don’t worry,” Mommy told me then, “this is a forgiving recipe. It always comes ...
Walking Away
Everything seemed to be endowed with a strange and luminous intensity, as if all of reality had been reduced to what ...
Never Say Never
“Two free tickets to anywhere,” the El Al representative promised. It was incentive enough to be bumped from our flight ...
G-d of My Father
“Just ignore them, Ellie. You’ve been a spectacle before — and you didn’t care back then, so why should you care now?”
No Good Reason
The unspoken consensus was that there was no reason for Hersh to be so high strung. Sure, he was a Survivor, but were not they all?
Dance, Daddy, Dance
Daddy, Dance,Why had I ever wished you would stop dancing?,
Finders Weepers
“Ma, let’s be reasonable. I know you wanted to get rid of it and purposely hid it in a pillowcase in my guest ...
The Screen Door
If Fraidy brushed off comments with vague rejoinders, well, there was a new Infiniti in the driveway and a full-time Ro ...
All in the Family
“Tamar, we don’t want to go back there — to what happened before Shiffy’s wedding. Remember? In Three Steps? The shoppi ...
Honey Redefined
You’d think a girl would at least try to pretend she’s sweet and wonderful when talking to a shadchan, but Bracha’s ...
