Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostr...

As Tevye’s oldest daughter, Tzeitel, I wanted to offer some relevant and toootally up-to-date back-to-school advice, and provide some gifts ...

Introduction Some mentors are easy to spot: they work for the Y, they have an office, a piece of paper that says they’re “allowed” to be l...

Dearest Readers, As time goes on I have noted and collected many a FAQ from friends, students, fans and the generally curious. I thought...

It was moments before dawn. Shura's eyes blinked wearily. The light from the sky was a dark, heavy blue, scarcely light enough to see ...

“ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ” ~ E.E. Cummings      In August I was honored to do a super fancy "Sh...

- Writing writing writing... - Basking in short hair! - Taking great joy in doing even the littlest of tasks with excellence - Learn...

Hello Readers! Greetings from London, where I just had one heckuva week seeing friends, visiting my favo(u)rite places, restaurants, ho...

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“ Knowing you have something good to read before bed,” Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “is among the most pleasurable of sensations. ” What'...

If starship travel from our Earth to some far star and back again at velocities approaching the speed of light made you younger than me...

I am going on vacation this week from my beloved Fiddler on the Roof , and in my absence, the lovely Tess Primack and Jennifer Zetlan (not...