Now that the Jewish High Holidays have come and gone, what can we keep with us for the rest of the year? Whether we went to Synagogue or not, whether we found
Tag: God
Vulnerable, JEWISH, And Happy
… sitting in the sukkah on Sunday evening, I made the decision to be happy. It needed to be a deliberate decision because my family recently lost a beloved
The KING Is In The Field
In addition to the move and all, I squeezed in learning for the first time what the High Holidays preparations are about. It is actually quite thrilling…
MOVING! Frazzled, Fun-loving & Ferklempt 🤪
it’s 4 hours before Shabbat on Friday! 😳😬🤪. Four hours left to finish up!! Suffice it to say, I am not done packing. I did learn an invaluable lesson in a
TRUST G-D? ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS FORWARD: Recap #2
Several readers have asked how specifically I went from hating being Jewish to falling in love with it. Here are the stories about coming to trust and love
Laugh, SURRENDER & say thanks
I joked that I can be a bit flighty. As if to prove my authenticity, I stood up and the remainder of my hot pot soup somehow landed squarely in my lap, upside down…broth, oil, vegetables, chicken and…
WE PLAN, G0D LAUGHS
I sometimes say when things go wrong, G-d sure has a sense of humor! I can do that when the circumstances are not extremely serious. Regarding the more serious things…
G0D, TUBS, & NY Taxis: the Sequel
Hopping in and out of three, four… five tubs, back to the first and then making the rounds again, Reggie, who’d grown up in the Outback cried out, “Stop! You look like a kangaroo! hopping in and out, and …”
THE BATHROOM…& G0D: Part One
I could admit a bathtub was a pretty low-risk venture. If I could trust G0D with this, I supposed it could grow from there. The bathtub felt far from trivial… and yet…
THE POSSIBLITY OF G0D: a recap plus a tad more
I sometimes have a hard time decluttering – i.e. eighteen year old scrawled birthday cards from my kids, my parent’s odds and ends dishes that don’t match, old painted wooden “heart” tissue boxes my kids made (and I never really even used – three of them!). So when I found a story I wrote a Read More