I have found the window above a kitchen sink is an unusual source of joy. A quick glance into the outside world helps the mundane job of washing dishes to pass more quickly, especially at sunset, which is my favorite part of the day. A sea of pink flooded the swirling cirrus clouds that filled [...]
I knew I was tired after the previous day's travels. Sweeping the sheer curtains aside, I slid open the glass door that led to our tenth floor balcony. Countless ships sat anchored off-shore waiting for their turn to enter the canal, and though they were enormous in size, each vessel looked so tiny from my [...]
Most ingenious ideas begin with a light bulb. You might think that I mean the little imaginary glass globe that hangs above every inventive person's head. The bulb dings as it flashes on when another original idea is born in the brain of it's creative host. Most likely, the first brilliant dreamer that this little [...]
Yes, I'm a shiksa. I fit into a group of women of the likes of Ruth, Tamar...Rahab. As you can see by my colleagues, none of us are perfect. You see, "shiksa" is a Yiddish word that describes a gentile woman who is married to a man of Jewish descent. Some rabbis agree that the [...]
We stood patiently waiting our turn to check out at the dinner-time rush in the grocery store, and it was then that my son found a dime on the ground under the candy rack. It was always his habit to put any coins that he found on the floor into the donations collection container for [...]
Let's be honest, for most of us in this world it's a difficult subject to discuss, especially when you're approached by a curious five-year-old looking for more solid information beyond a baby tucked snuggly in a nap sack hanging from a stork's long beak. Plenty of people have come up with their own code name [...]
I stood in the hallway, motionless. On the other side of the bathroom door the 1924 World Olympics were in full swing and I waited for the competing runners to burst through the door on their way to the finish line. If I lingered around long enough I thought that I might be able [...]
I was pretty confident that Han Solo was about to exit the hallway bathroom in search of his galactic ship. The sleek silver shuttle was most likely parked in the school yard a couple of blocks away. Perhaps he had needed to make a pit stop on his way to rescue an at-risk planet in [...]
They call me Mega Mom. My youngest son sat in his car seat, calling me by my new name over and over. “Mega Mom. Mega Mom.” I sat wondering what was so mega and why they were calling me that. Maybe my hair was super fluffy that day, or maybe it was my new [...]
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