The Welcome Letter of an Inflight Magazine Made Me Cry

Are you going to cry too?
published in P.S. I Love You on Medium.

Plane flying through sunset. Photo by Leio McLaren (@leiomclaren) on Unsplash

Update: The Dog Food/Jewish Aisle...

I just published Update: The Dog Food/Jewish Aisle... A Month and a Half Later on Medium.
It's an update to the story in my popular piece, The Dog Food/Jewish Aisle of My Local Grocery.

Pug in fluff. Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash

Share that Holiday Spirit All Year Long

And forget all that stranger danger business!
published on Medium

“Let’s Adore and Endure Each Other” art in Shoreditch, London — Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Writers Supporting Writers

Writers Supporting Writers
#WritingCommunity, and how I got 350 Twitter followers in 3 days (now up to 462)
Published by The Writing Cooperative, on Medium.

Follow me! Photo by Hugues de BUYER-MIMEURE on Unsplash

Featured as One of EburgVeg's Top Ten Favorite Bloggers!

EburgVeg: Top Ten Favorite Bloggers
I'm on there! Amazing!

Read it all here.

And here's a piece I wrote about EburgVeg, for Raise Vegan!

A Lookback at My Favorite Writing on Medium This Year

Year-in-Review 2018
See it here (with all friends links, so you don't need to be a Medium member to read any of it).

Balloons. Photo by Sagar Patil on Unsplash

Growing Up Jewish in America

I just published Growing Up Jewish in America on Medium.
This is an epic one. I wrote it right after the Tree of Life shooting, then held on to it since then, feeling emotional enough about it that I didn't want to just hit publish. I took another look at it this week, saw that top Hanukkah pic, and thought, "I've gotta get this out there now."

I'm Featured in P.S. I Love You's Favorite #Family Submissions!

Here's a link to P.S. I Love You's Favorite #Family Submissions!
Three of my pieces are included! Wow:
The Truth About Santa Claus
The First Time Your Baby Smiles at You
and
Love Letter to My Dog

Image Credit: Pixabay

Dinner Date with My Husband

Dinner Date with My Husband - A Poem
Published in P.S. I Love You on Medium.

Us, gazing at our amazing kiddo, at my parents' house. Photo Credit: my mom.

“love 24 hrs” Photo by Wyron A on Unsplash

Living in the Moment, or Living for the Photo?

If we don't take a picture, did it really happen? Read it now on Medium!

Writing First-Person While Respecting Others' Privacy

That fine line between TMI and keeping your friends.
Published in The Writing Cooperative on Medium.

Women and Silence--Vox: Dystopian Fiction and the Power of Our Voices

Proud of this one: Women and Silence--Vox: Dystopian Fiction and the Power of Our Voices
I didn't want to wait, so I self-published it on Medium. Part book review, part personal essay, part feminist plea.

Parental Anxiety and Accepting Help

Parental Anxiety and Accepting Help - Holding On and Letting Go
I just self-published this one on Medium.
It was inspired by a dream that helped me understand my feelings in regards to parental anxiety and control.
I also wanted to write something positive about the experience (free childcare!) that's happening right now while we're staying at my parents' house, as my mom is very concerned about how I write about very personal things and thinks my writing skews too negative. It is definitely a fine line, how to be honest instead of falsely rose-colored, but how not to cause others pain through your honesty. Let's add that anxiety to the mix.

Me and my boo, before a holiday party, when she was 1. Photo Credit: Author.

Do You Lie to Your Kids About Santa?

Just published in P.S. I Love You on Medium.
Do You Lie to Your Kids About Santa?
(because I really don't want to.)

Santa figurine and lights. Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash

Back to My Childhood Bedroom - A Rhyming Poem

I'm visiting my parents in Florida, in the house where I grew up.
So I wrote a poem about it.

My newest piece for The Writing Cooperative (on Medium) is called Is My Pain Funny to You? (Maybe That's Okay.)
Just a quick piece celebrating some of my favorite Jewish radicals and reminding myself that it's okay to laugh even though life is sort of horrible.

The Dog Food/Jewish Aisle of My Local Grocery

(Anti-semitic micro-aggressions and how it feels to say something)

Just published, for this Hanukkah holiday, on Medium.

Photo by Shopify Partners from Burst

The First Time Your Baby Smiles at You

New piece published on P.S. I Love You on Medium. Complete with cute videos!