Price to Pay
“I’m sorry,” I mumbled. I sat down again and stirred my tea. “You think I’m an awful person. Sitting here on an all-expenses-paid vacation, complaining. How greedy, right?”
Tag: Family Tempo
Mis“givings”
A nudge from Sari shushed her immediately. A fleeting fear of death filled their eyes.
Mix and Match
She glanced in the mirror and reapplied her lipstick. She was becoming her mother. But it wouldn’t hurt to look presentable
Finding Thanks
Hashem, how can you do this to me? I thought. I’m Your daughter, You’re my father! Is this the way to treat a daughter? I don’t deserve this!
Just Fine
“I’m worried about his ability to be empathetic,” Raizy says slowly, still reading through the résumé. “To be caring, to anticipate someone else’s needs”
Pruning
This is what he has come for, she knows. He’s going to ask her to do something, to support something that she cannot and will not support
Tempo Story: The Bar Mitzvah That Almost Wasn’t
A year before his bar mitzvah, our son Shalom said he didn’t want one.
16-Hour Date
I smiled back, Zevi’s calm tamping down the irritation that had started to bubble up again — and that I’d been trying so carefully to hide. After all, I didn’t want the boy I was ...
What Goes Down Must Come Up
As the hours pass, my internal narrator begins to sound a little like Good Night Moon. Goodbye laundry. Goodbye clock. Goodbye daughter wearing one yellow sock
Up, Up, and Away
It was her background, he didn’t want to get involved with a girl from a broken home. An only child, whose single mom might need her after her marriage
Pearls of Faith
I’d wanted to spend the evening curled up with a book, losing myself in an alternative reality. But Aaron’s vort forced me to get dressed, get out, and face the world.
