Fear & Freedom // Two friends gaze across the chasm of illness and infection
On a muggy evening in late September (fall offering no respite from the stifling heat of the previous months; airless and oppressive, the physical...
More Than Meets the Eye // A swollen eyelid that turned out to be...
Every time she woke up with the swelling, I felt a niggling unease. Something told me we were on the wrong track. I just...
Finding Light after Loss // Two mothers, a generation apart, met under...
Meir Greenfeld was a few months past his bar mitzvah, in 2003, when he was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a rare form of blood...
Chasing After My Sister // Lessons my paralyzed sister taught me
Three months ago, my sister Rivka, quarantined in a nursing home in Baltimore, died from COVID-19. It was a pitiful way to die, comatose...
A Sticky Situation // Why did every cut get infected?
When I got a nasty scratch from a nail in the door, I didn’t think much about it. It was long and deep and...
Snow Way! // Everything you always wanted to know about the powdery stuff
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
So...
The Extended Family // children of divorce face challenges; one woman is providing help
Talking with Shterny Steinmetz immersed me in a sea of inspiration.
Shterny started by sharing some details of her life and explaining how she got...
Looking Back // My Journey through Cancer and Beyond
It all started when my son was born. My husband and I wanted to name him after my father, z”l, who had been niftar...
The Lamplighter // Conversations with a number of influential women about the people who...
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night...
A Place of Our Own// Miriam Liebermann, Faigie Horowitz & Sara Brejt...
Women Talk, and have been doing so since the beginning of time. The Gemara tells us that “Ten measures of conversation descended to the...
