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…

Go beyond mani-pedis and cultivate a new you — In December of 2020, I was invited to speak to a group of women at a synagogue in San Fransisco about a topic of my choice; one that would hopefully make a difference in the midst of the pandemic. They found me through my writing, which at the time was…

And we are out of sync — Is anyone else feeling a little out of sync with the kids home for summer? Or maybe a lot out of sync?! I know I am! If your house is anything like mine while the kids are out of school for summer, then your routine has just gone to hell! …

A haiku —

Coloring outside the lines of our lives — An artist is never wrong, just as his art is always right. He paints freely and can color outside the lines if he chooses because darn it — it's his art! As children, we seem to know this, yet as adults, we forget. My son was practically born creative. When…

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. …