One of the biggest challenges I have as a writer is finding the time to write. I spend my days shuttling around my daughter, cleaning up after her, running the household and trying to keep my sanity through all of it. I am very lucky to have several hours most days when I can write… [Read More]
Archives for May 2016
Not Like I Thought
The one constant of motherhood is that it defies expectation. The depth of my love and joy goes much deeper than I could have imagined. At the same time, I am often surprised by the things that are much more difficult than I thought they would be, like my daughter transitioning to nursery school. In… [Read More]
women who write
We found each other last summer through Facebook groups and online writing classes: an American mother living in Japan with small children, a humor writer in Texas whose kids were off at college, an essayist in Arizona with an eye for detail and a 10-year-old daughter, an English mother living in Israel with her family and a… [Read More]
The Way My Daughter Will Remember My Grandmother
I am incredibly blessed to have had my grandparents in my life for the last 37 years. In my most recent essay on Kveller, I write about my beautiful, larger-than-life grandmother, and how I long to teach my daughter about her. Read the essay here.