A SELECTION OF PUBLISHED ESSAYS
Some humorous, some serious, all me
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4 essays in 4 anthologies:
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"Ink Stains and Blood Stains: The Spring of My Becoming" in INK by Hippocampus Books, 2022. ​
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"When Your Period is a Religious Affair," in STAINED: An anthology of writing about menstruation, by Querencia Press, 2023.
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"Belly," in Awakenings: Writing on the Body & Consciousness by ELJ Editions, October 2023.
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The Viking Bar Mitzvah and other adventure in Jewish Joy" in Manna Songs by ELJ Editions, forthcoming fall 2025.
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Essays in magazines, journals, and news outlets:
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At Age 57, I Was Exhausted By A Lifetime of Challenges. Then I Received A Surprising Diagnosis," HUFFPOST PERSONAL, May 16, 2025.
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"Her Body as a Wonderland," CREATIVELY ADHD, May 3, 2025.
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"Never Let Go," ON BEING JEWISH NOW, April 11, 2025.
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"On Blurbs That Matter and How I Did It," BREVITY BLOG, April 3, 2025.
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"Your Body, Your Wunderkammer," BREVITY BLOG, September 6, 2024.
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"Hineini: Here I Am, a Former Mikveh Dissenter and Bride (again) at 57," MAYYIM HAYYIM, February 25, 2024.
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"Twenty-Three Loads of Laundry," THE MANIFEST STATION, January 13, 2024.
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"A Collaboration of Bodies: How Publishing in an Anthology Can Expand Your Literary Community," BREVITY BLOG, November 15, 2023.
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"Seven Times Around My Husband(s): the Growing Pains (and Pleasures) of a Convert to Judaism," LOOSE LIPS MAGAZINE, May 10, 2023.
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"Skin in the Game" in HER STRY, March 13, 2023.
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"Falling" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, September 15, 2022.
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"Little Peeper" in VINE LEAVES PRESSE'S 50 Give or Take, June, 2022.
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"How Creating a Writing Workshop Brought Me Back to My (Neglected) Memoir," BREVITY BLOG, May 3, 2022.
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"Our Time" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, May, 2022.
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"Taking Holocaust Education to TikTok" in TABLET MAGAZINE, April 1, 2022.
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"An Impulsive Move and a Pandemic" in FULL GROWN PEOPLE, March 3, 2022.
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"Mail Order Bride" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, September 15, 2021.
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"After Painful Losses, I am Finally Living My Dream Life at 55," AARP's THE ETHEL, September 3, 2021.
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A Tale of Two Converts" in MOMENT MAGAZINE, August 20, 2021.
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"Make Your Own Gravlaks" in TABLET MAGAZINE, June 16, 2021.
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"Why Oslo Ran Out of Matzo" in TABLET MAGAZINE, May 11, 2021.
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"Collector of Passports," SAD GIRLS CLUB, May 10, 2021.
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"Adapting Holocaust Stories for Young Readers" in TABLET MAGAZINE, April 6, 2021.
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"A Passover Snack That Packs a Crunch" in TABLET MAGAZINE, March 26, 2021.
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"The Deep End" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, March 15, 2021.
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"I Forgot to Tell My Son it's OK to Be a Secular Jew," KVELLER, November 30, 2020.
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"Tale of Two Converts," MOMENT MAGAZINE, November 12, 2020.
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"October 8, 2010," PAST TEN, October 8, 2020.
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"As a New Convert, I Thought It Was Okay to...," THE FORWARD, October 6, 2020.
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"Saying Goodbye to Seafood," TABLET MAGAZINE, June 16 2020.
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"Nirvana: How the Lockdown Released an Easily Distracted Writer," BREVITY BLOG, April 22 2020.
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"Authentic gravlaks from a Viking Jewess," THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, January 28 2020.
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"On Reading Outside Our Genre," BREVITY BLOG, February 11 2019.
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"Trondheim Instead of Oslo," THE WASHINGTON POST, September 26 2019. ​
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"Latchkey Kid," POYDRAS REVIEW, June 11 2018.
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"Post-Holiday Glee: My First Purim in Maine," LILITH BLOG, March 2 2018.
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"Ideaphoria Redux. Or, Writer's Shpilkes," BREVITY BLOG, February 23 2018.
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"My Snowy, Cold and Uplifting Night at a Mikvah in Oslo," JEWESS, February 19 2018.
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"I Love Your Family, But I Dread Your Joyous Holiday Letters," THE WASHINGTON POST, November 30 2016.
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"Learning to be Frugal," THE HUFFINGTON POST, June 23 2016.
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"My Friend died of Cancer. Six Months Later I Met Her Widower's Girlfriend," THE WASHINGTON POST, July 6 2015.
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"My Cathartic Writing Experience," LITERARY MAMA, August 31 2015.
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"Why I resent the Term 'Alimony'," THE HUFFINGTON POST, August 6 2015.
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