A Wonderful Photo I Received Yesterday
My cousin Noah in Atlanta has been going through boxes of old family photos, and he’s been discovering all sorts of treasures like this one he sent yesterday of me as a baby with my parents and older brother, John. This photo reminds me the blessing of having parents. Such a normal, common blessing. Almost […]
Read MoreThe Blessing of Normal
Last spring my Dad had heart surgery and in the months that followed, he couldn’t get back to himself. He could no longer walk up the stairs to his bedroom without stopping to rest. He seldom had the energy to leave the house at all. His surgeon realized last month that one of the arteries […]
Read MoreMy Morning Amongst the Popping Poppies
Last night I got a whopper of a disappointment regarding something I’ve been davening for for years. I thought this something was finally about to happen, but last night I found out that it’s actually not. This morning, I was feeling really upset. And I decided I wasn’t going to do what I usually do: […]
Read MoreMazal Tov to Chana Ximena and Avishai!
I’m sure some of you still remember my interview with JewishMom.com’s incredible Social Media Coordinator Chana Ximena Orozco, “From Soap Opera Star to Orthodox Jew https://jewishmom.com/2021/06/23/from-soap-opera-star-to-orthodox-jew/?fbclid=IwAR1ixXa-HM7G4gCoxTyBTmUo9D-KMAQOpLaonFVAytpjts5g4_ZHgqnlk_g&mibextid=Zxz2cZTo refresh your memory, Chana Ximena was a wildly popular Mexican soap-opera star who moved to Israel and converted to Judaism 2 years ago. I met (then just) Ximena […]
Read MoreMazal Tov, Mazal Tov
If you love JewishMOM.com, the person you should thank is the Hadas Eliana Weisberg, who, with her wondrous arrival into the world 25 years ago today, made me a Jewish mom. This photo was taken on a truly wonderful mother-daughter birthday trip we took today to Ein Gedi. 6Mazal tov, Hadas, on your 25th birthday, […]
Read MoreMy Personal Parenting Journey
I gave a 40-minute talk this morning at the OU Israel Center about my own parenting journey. You can listen at this link below. Enjoy! https://www.ouisrael.org/video-library/?fbclid=IwAR0ipZFST8YKYFfIHQRGqi4dHpNKwKi591JCDxok9Kw2zi5zWuK1tMbXYko&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#sFOemuwR
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