How do you talk to your kiddos about God, spirituality, the Universe, and death?
You’re Turning Into Your Mother
As my husband told me I was turning into my mother, I didn’t have the usual gut-wrenching, catch your breath reaction society has taught us to feel upon hearing those words.
A Letter to my Palestinian-American Muslim Friend
Connection and communication helped me to confront prejudice, challenge stereotypes, and understand a culture that I knew only through media, politics and hearsay.
Being Jewish
As a mother of two Jewish kids in a family with a deliberately light religious undertone, I hope they will find their own unique connection with their heritage.
Open-Concept Curmudgeon
How does anyone get alone time in a house with no walls?
The Intention of Lying
How does one’s lying affect your life?
Hair We Are (Again), It’s Picture Day
Can we agree not to let school pictures define our perceptions of each other as parents?
The Things Moms Carry
The things moms carry have very little to do with necessity.
The Price of Silver Screen Spontaneity
Would spontaneity be required on the sacrificial altar of motherhood?
Words
On her path, she will meet words of all manner. Shake hands with words of curiosity. Turn her eyes from words of hate. Embrace with reckless abandon words of passion, and love, and wonder.