When your nest is empty, you no longer have reminders of what time of year it is. No new school calendar, no need for camp registration or plans for winter vacation; aside from the change in the weather, you need to really be on top of the day and date. Unless that is just me. Also, because I was in Israel, when I got home, I knew it was mid-August, but I still thought that time stood still and there were weeks before the summer was over. And then I...Continue Reading
Each one of us who was old enough to be sentient on September 11, 2001, has memories and stories, and connections to friends who have their own sets of stories. This is my story. It started like a not-quite-regular day because of its startling beauty. There was what many...Continue Reading
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If every person is a world, as our tradition tells us, then a city is filled with so many worlds that it’s impossible to imagine all those rubbing-together universes. That’s particularly true of Jerusalem, one of the world’s oldest cities, at just about 5,000 years old, give or...Continue Reading
Time moves in only one direction. Forward. And the more of it you’ve lived through, the faster it seems to move. (Being a kid lasts for an eternity, high school takes nearly forever, college, well, not so long, and after that, whoooosssh….) So maybe it makes sense that...Continue Reading
