LifeTakes

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

One Red Flower

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 Tempo

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Where You Will Go

She looks old. My Heddie, my baby. The joke curdles. Hip hip, whatever, hip hip hooray. We’re all aging here in this old house

Family Tempo

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Solo

It comes to him there in the chilly dressing room, kicks him in the gut — what happened before he left, hours ago, a concert ago

Fiction

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Taking It Far

She knows she should get up, get supper going, but the warmth stripes her feet and she stretches back into the couch ...

LifeTakes

Monday, October 02, 2017

My Own Backyard

I don’t live here, I’ve got to go home. Will I ever recapture the connection I feel here, on this little porch?

Real Life

Monday, September 18, 2017

Sparks in the Sky

We land and head straight for Ichilov hospital. Shealtiel is frighteningly still, white, surrounded by beeping — blood pressu ...

Real Life

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Two Dolls

She doesn’t ask because she knows it will make Mommy sad, just like she doesn’t ask why they don’t have a daddy i ...

Windows

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

It’s There, Somewhere

Despite herself, she is experiencing the kavanos that the rebbetzin had taught a few days earlier. She’s never felt better ...

Fiction

Monday, May 29, 2017

The Everything-Less Cheesecake

It was all about timing, and three weeks before the Festival of Cheesecakes was no doubt the best time to launch her ...

Real Life

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Dancing in Orbit

“Well then,” the caller says calmly, “I wanted to let you know that you’ve just won a ticket to Israel for the hi ...

LifeTakes

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The Simple Way

My old neighbor Sheva’le is in her forties, wears a sheitel, and has all the vivaciousness of an 11-year-old