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When I was 21, I published my second novel, called Invisible Me.
Some of you may have read it. It’s a novel about a girl who is selectively mute, an ...
Yesterday was one of those days where the only thing holding me together was coffee and the promise of bedtime.
Everything was wrong.
Appointment? Can...
Over Shabbos, while reading Rebbetzin Sarah Yehudit Schneider’s Dark Matters of the Soul, I stumbled on something that hit me hard, even though it sho...
I spent this morning at the bris (circumcision) of my newest nephew. There’s something so profound about the feeling of welcome, the way we gather to ...
It's Wednesday.
At least, it’s Wednesday for you. For me, it’s last Wednesday. I’m writing this email early, because by the time you’ll get to readin...
With my Yiddishkeit.
But aren't we all? Shouldn’t we all?
I was recently featured as a guest in an upcoming podcast interview and asked if I thought J...
So it’s Elul now. The month where the air changes, just a little, but you can feel it. The month where the King is in the field. Where we’re asked to ...
These days, it seems like the healing world is obsessed with “being your authentic self.”
And sure, authenticity matters. But here’s the problem: my ...
You probably know by now that I’m the kind of person who likes to have her ducks in a row.
All figured out.
Organized.
Structured.
The last few months h...
It’s taken me twenty five years to finally admit in a public setting something my mother would have wept to hear me say as a teenager:
I know nothing...
I wasn’t planning to send an email today. I’m knee-deep in some very cool surprises that are coming your way soon and I didn't think there would be ti...
It’s happening!
We haven’t even started Azamra yet and I’m already in that can’t-sleep, weird-dreams, slightly-sweaty-but-glowing state. Delirious wi...
