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The Day Two Women at the Dollar Store Changed My Way of Thinking
I remember clearly the day that I learned for sure that I know nothing. I was standing in line at the dollar store, casually eavesdropping on the woman ahead of me talk with the woman behind the...
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Pumping in the Amtrak Station Never Felt So Good
Three kids in, I will nurse (and have done) in front of anyone. Father-in-law? Check. Rabbi? Check. Boss? Check. Graduate students? Check. Everyone who goes to my local park, grocery store, coffee...
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If You Don’t Vaccinate, Keep Your Kids Away From My Baby
I’m a pretty laid-back parent about most things. My kids eat dirt, play with (plastic) knives, and spend a lot of time on the counter helping me cook. I rarely think to warn others when they have colds...
View ArticleThe Day Two Women at the Dollar Store Changed My Way of Thinking
I remember clearly the day that I learned for sure that I know nothing. I was standing in line at the dollar store, casually eavesdropping on the woman ahead of me talk with the woman behind the...
View ArticlePumping in the Amtrak Station Never Felt So Good
Three kids in, I will nurse (and have done) in front of anyone. Father-in-law? Check. Rabbi? Check. Boss? Check. Graduate students? Check. Everyone who goes to my local park, grocery store, coffee...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Vaccinate, Keep Your Kids Away From My Baby
I’m a pretty laid-back parent about most things. My kids eat dirt, play with (plastic) knives, and spend a lot of time on the counter helping me cook. I rarely think to warn others when they have...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Begin Explaining Anti-Semitism to My Children
For the first time in six years, there was a guard outside our shul on Shabbat. It’s not one of the big historic synagogue buildings in Center City Philadelphia, which has, like many large synagogues,...
View ArticleDon’t Ask Where Our ‘Glory’ is, Ask What You Can Do To Help
This piece was written in response to a previous blog post by Jordana Horn. I also (in what seems to be a theme on this website) didn’t watch the Oscars. The next day, the blogosphere directed me to...
View ArticleI Made Fun of a 6-Year-Old Today
This is my bald statement of truth: I made fun of someone much younger, with much less power, and far fewer resources with which to deal with cruelty. Today, I was an asshole, and instead of a...
View ArticleHow a Naked Toddler & Wine-Soaked Infant Taught Me Motherhood Is Communal
I was with my three kids the other day, en route to a favorite public water park. As I saw the bus pulling up, I remembered—suddenly, viscerally, and more than a little bit painfully—the first time I...
View ArticleWhy I Cook for Strangers
It was late at night. The kids were finally asleep and I’d finished up my work for the day. All I wanted to do was fall into bed, but instead there I was in the kitchen, cooking a meal for someone I’d...
View ArticleWhy I Started Putting Up Pictures of My Kids at Work
For those women with the freedom to choose when to have a baby*, it is usually not a decision made lightly. There’s a lot to consider, and the factors are different for every woman or couple. And the...
View ArticleThe Extraordinary Way My Friend Is Chronicling Her Cancer
My friend Ilana is sick. She’s in the fight of her life. And she’s winning. Please God and anyone else who may be listening, she’s winning. Meanwhile, I’m listening closely, reading, tweeting, and...
View ArticleWhen People Leave Before the Memorial Prayer, What Message Are We Sending to...
It doesn’t hurt me anymore. Standing quietly as I prepare for Yizkor, the memorial prayer, I watch most of the synagogue file out (quietly, respectfully—until they pass the invisible barrier and then,...
View ArticleAfter 6 Years of Sleep Deprivation, I Finally Started Dreaming Again
The past few mornings, I’ve woken up with the feeling that I’ve forgotten something. I wracked my brain today, trying to figure out what needed to be done. It came to me: packing. I need to pack....
View ArticleI Finally Have More Time Because of This One Miraculous Change
We had heard rumors about it, whispered behind closed doors and with a tone of skeptical reverence. Some said it was as common as water, others said it was rarer than a sighting of the Loch Ness...
View ArticleWe Can Stand Up to Donald Trump’s Call to Ban Muslims By Doing This
I wish we didn’t have to take it seriously. I wish it didn’t all sound so familiar. I wish it really was just a joke, a satire, a sideshow act. I wish it didn’t make me very, very scared. Again. A...
View ArticleWhy No One Will Be Watching the Super Bowl in My Home
“It’s just a game.” That’s what people say, rolling their eyes slightly and turning away, when they hear that I am no longer watching NFL or participating in any of its merchandising or fantasy pools....
View ArticleThis Is Why I’ve Never Cut My Kids’ Hair
None of my kids has ever had a haircut. That’s not an ideological statement, or a religious one. (Or, really, even a true one, to be honest: My littlest guy recently told me that “my hair gets in my...
View ArticleI’m Really Bad at Saying No And It’s Stressing Me Out
I’m not very good at saying no. That isn’t a humble brag: As a feminist and a (sometime) pragmatist, I think women in particular would benefit tremendously from saying no more often. We are asked to do...
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