When your vision goes dark, you see the light — A few nights ago my biggest dilemma was what show to binge on Netflix as I happily lay in bed reminiscing about my day. It was a great day after all. I had my first since-pandemic in-person work event that night and I met a friend for a glass-ish of…

Quenching my desire to feel alive — Did you go to New Zealand by yourself? I can’t even drive to the airport alone without major anxiety! That was me, in my forties, until two years ago. I moved to New York from Israel when I was eight years old. This was the first time I was on…

Haiku series — Poetry Sunday —

It’s about more than sex and money; you have to talk to each other too — You meet her. You feel all the feels and all the butterflies. You decide she’s the one, put a ring on her finger, and live happily ever after. The End. And then you wake up to your cluttered home with a heap of unpaid bills, a princess in sweatpants that…

A haiku —

I opened my home and new doors appeared — I was determined to start off the new year differently this year. As they say, if you want to have different or be different, you have to do different! If we keep doing what we’ve always been doing, we will stay exactly where we are. …

My writing and life year-in-review — My life informs my writing, and as such my writing reflects my life. When I first started writing on the platform in the summer of 2020, I was post-breakup and deep into lockdown. My stories flowed out in search of a connection with the outside world, as I released pain…

3 ways to bring in the new year without a date — So you’re single on New Year’s Eve and all your friends are doing couply-things? So what? Who said that New Year’s Eve had to be ushered in with a plus one anyway?! Change the conversation to ‘no date, no problem,’ and make your own fun! It’s almost 2023 people! Isn’t…

My Bar Mitzvah speech to my son — On May 7th, 2022 I had the pleasure of watching my firstborn become a Bar Mitzvah, a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism when a child essentially becomes a Jewish adult. No, he can’t drink or drive, but rather he gets greater responsibility in our faith. …