A Year in Review
This year, there are plenty of things that I didn’t get done: deadlines that weren’t met, trips not taken, and occasions not celebrated. While it’s easy to focus on loses, I’d like to try to end this year looking at [Read More]
Book Review: The Wolf of Baghdad- Memoir of a Lost Homeland
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland by Carol Isaacs (the Surreal McCoy) is a hauntingly beautiful graphic memoir that tells the story of Isaacs family in Jewish Baghdad almost without words. The haunting images put Isaacs into [Read More]
The KidLit That Got Me Through the Pandemic (Part 1)
While the pandemic has been long, my time to myself has been short. With four children learning in an apartment since January, we are all trying our best. Three are online and one, with special needs, does most of her [Read More]
Shavua Shorts
Four weeks have gone by that included a 2 week trip to Israel followed by a 2 week hotel quarantine. I’m making the most of my quarantine to finish polishing my middle grade manuscript and to compile a list of [Read More]
Shavua Shorts
- Exchanged another two chapters of my MG Historical Fiction with my critique partner.
- Received one rejection on a piece I submitted to a journal last month.
- Decided that NaNoWriMo is unrealistic because I will be traveling to Israel in [Read More]
Shavua Shorts
As my computer dies a slow death, I have been in a rush to try to make sure that everything is saved somewhere. I can only work in about 10 minute spurts (battery runs out FAST even when the computer [Read More]
Shavua Shorts
It wasn’t the most productive week, but considering it was a school holiday for Sukkot and Mid-Autumn Festival anything that I accomplished was a bonus. The current news cycle didn’t help with focus either. I did get out for a [Read More]
Shavua Shorts
- Wrote an essay about my cat and submitted it to a contest.
- Wrote and submitted a 55-word flash piece (Welter 55 Contest) thanks to Erika Dreifus’s The Practising Writer.
- Worked on another 2 chapters of my Historical [Read More]
Text Message from Mom
Text Messages from Mom
I woke up today to three new text messages from my mother. We buried her in April, but apparently not her phone.
“There’s a logical explanation,” says my husband, “Call your dad.”
“Why?”
“Maybe he found the phone and [Read More]