My grief is now real. My mother is gone. Now I need to try to do something with it. I guess writing it is the answer.

My grief hits me every quiet moment that I manage to find for myself. Traveling [Read More]

This week was mostly focused on trying to pack away some of my mother’s things. It’s been over a year, but everything was left just as it was the day she fell. She was disorganized and accumulated far too many [Read More]

I think I’m meant to write one of those long ‘how I found my agent’ posts because I’m now officially represented by Caryn Wiseman of the Andrea Brown Literacy Agency!

I’m so excited to begin to work on my MG Historical [Read More]

Publishing is filled with losses and wins though this week it was mostly wins.

• My piece for Modern Loss was published so I suppose that is a publishing win. It was about receiving the COVID vaccine a year after [Read More]
  

The Jewish community of India is very dear to my heart. 

India is undergoing a major COVID crisis right now. If we have all learned anything from COVID, it is that we are all in this together. 

If you want [Read More]

It was more writing, editing, and querying. Repeat. I’m still determined to get a piece into Tiny Love – one day.

I wrote and then revised a picture book manuscript based on a story from Talmud. I’m particularly excited about it [Read More]

Back on the rollercoaster of publishing (and life) ups and downs.

It was the 1st yahrzeit (anniversary on the Hebrew calendar) of my mother’s death. I ordinarily sleep for 5-6 hours. I slept for 12. By the end of a very [Read More]