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 Life Lessons
The Fragility of Life — Escaping a Fire

On a night intended to commemorate our eleventh anniversary, and our treasured connection to each other, we celebrate instead the kindness of strangers, and the delicate and fragile strands of life's web...
 Reflections
Crossing the Island

I begin to understand why I’ve made this trip. Now I can see my life from a distance. That must be one of the purposes of an island: an invention that isolates, that brings us away from the things that numb us. An island wakes us up because of the body of water that separates us from all the rest of life…
 Life Lessons
Finishing vs. Winning

I wanted the college degree, nice house, a great spouse, plenty of kids, and wonderful relationships. Who doesn’t? I don’t think it’s wrong to want and strive for all those things, but it also begs the question that when all is said and done, are you truly a winner?
From One World to the Next
She was so beautiful as she lay there on her back, perfectly still. I cradled her head in my arms as we washed her face. Her skin was smooth and her limbs remarkably flexible . . .
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Chewing It Over — Parshat Re'eh

Why would anyone feel euphoric just because they can see where the floor in their kids' room is? Men might chalk it up to insanity, or to simply being one of those girl things, but I prefer to attribute it to spiritual sensitivity...
 Poems about Expression
You-Turn

two fingers on the wheel
others jammed in matted hair,
I'm drowning
in tangled
new-fangled half-
hatched worldviews,
no idea where I am
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Being Kosher — Parshat Re'eh

G-d has given two signs which differentiate between kosher animals and non-kosher animals. These signs are guides by which we can try to keep our lives on a level that will make us kosher, and even holy...

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