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Destined to Choose named award finalist!
I'm super-thrilled to share that my first book, Destined to Choose, has been named a 2015 National Indie Excellence Award finalist!Here's two things I've learned from this:1. CELEBRATE! To celebrate...
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Fiction: to describe or not to describe is the question
Less than a week ago, I had a conversation with another author in which she asserted that she can always identify an amateur author by the fact that they describe their characters upon introduction. I...
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Please join my street team!
I'm looking for a few good people. Or maybe a lot of good people. I'm looking to form a "street team," a roving gang of readers who can do things I can't for David, Sara, Batya, Arik, and the rest of...
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The Ups and Downs of Being an Author OR Check Your Ego at the Door
Be careful what you ask for, the saying goes, because you might just get it. That can be a problem.The problem isn't getting what you want. The problem is that once you have what you want, you want...
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Triggers, Critics, and Rosh Hashanah
It is two days before my newest novel, Strength to Stand, is released to the public, and I would have expected myself to be ecstatic. The book and I have both overcome so many odds to get to this point...
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Suspense and the David Cohen series
Destined to Choose (book 1 in the Rabbi David Cohen series) and Strength to Stand (book 2) are very different books in some ways. Destined to Choose might be best described as literary suspense...
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The Awesomest Launch Party I've Ever Had (So Far)
The launch party for Strength to Stand at SubText Books in downtown St. Paul was a thing of beauty.It started with the cake, created by Taste of Love Bakery in West St. Paul:Which I threatened to kill,...
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Bitter Herbs
I haven't written a blog post in over six months for a very good reason: I couldn't. I couldn't find the right words and when I thought I might have a few of them, I couldn't stop grieving. Yet...
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Naked and Afraid
Despite the tragic and devastating news from Orlando, there are still good, kind people in the world. I know, because I met two of them yesterday in Chicago's Midway Airport during what was one of the...
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Lessons From High School—30 Years Later
I went to my 30th high school reunion last weekend.Aww... Thanks for saying that I look like I couldn't be more than 18 years out of high school. That's sweet.Anyway, I had a pretty good idea who I was...
View ArticleHealing Through Music
I wasn't going to post this at all, and then I realized that that flies in the face of what I've been trying to do for the past nine years -- break the silence and end the stigma around depression.So...
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Wings
I took a shower today.To most, that wouldn't seem like a big deal, but when in the depths of a depression it is a Very Big Deal indeed. If you're familiar with Spoon Theory, it took almost all of my...
View ArticleTo Fight or Not to Fight #AKF
Everyone goes through depression differently. There's no one cause, no one experience, and no one solution. But there are some commonalities.Aside from the typical symptoms of depression (lack of...
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Four Lighthouses (or Why You Matter)
Many thanks to Teresa Romain/Access Abundance for the inspiration.Have you ever thought about what it's like to be a lighthouse? I have. Of course, I am a lighthouse, so I guess it's only natural. I'm...
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On Family
Seven years ago today, I wrote about family, about finding it and losing it and recreating it. Seven years later, these words are still true.* * *I've been resting and talking and reading and...
View ArticleFear Not
My greatest fearIs that I’ll leave no traceThat I was ever here.And I know that fear is irrational.I have childrenWho are growing intoAmazing young adults.My partner would argueThat I matter to him.My...
View ArticleReflections
Today turned out to be a time of reflection on life and death and change and permanency. My own personal losses—parents, child—and losses affecting many more people.I've always thought of myself as...
View ArticleTouchstones
I recently returned from my first trip to Israel as part of a tour group from my synagogue. I'm still processing it, but was able to capture some of what it meant to me in the following...
View ArticlePTSD: a poem
you hidein shadows and behind darkened memorieslooking for a weaknessa way ina break in my flawed façadejust a cracka whisperthe chance to turndream into nightmarelaughter to tearshope into ruin love...
View ArticleOn Getting Pregnant for the Tenth Time
I promised to participate in #gishwhes and apparently Misha promised someone else a SFW 2000-word essay on getting pregnant for the tenth time, and seeing as I’ve had a lot of practice (minds out of...
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