Category: Relationships

Many of us are often in the position of being a guest in someone’s home, whether for a Shabbos meal or over a Shabbos or Yom Tov. Some thoughts about being a comfortable and courteous guest:

My mother recently visited a cousin who has several adult children in shidduchim as well. Our cousin had the most encouraging words: “All it takes is two weeks.”

We never quite had a chance to recap how Y”T went. It was a world ago. I was home with a lot of family (ka”H) first days, and went to my aunt second days. (I had wanted to go to my grandmother but she wasn’t home in the end. Hopefully later this year). I hope wherever you were, it was …

Just a short post to share how I’m trying to contribute to the war effort, and maybe you can share your own thoughts and ideas.

There is really nothing to say. I had a bunch of posts in mind over Y”T and nothing seems appropriate for this moment. It is such a painful, painful time for all of us. When unspeakably horrible and infuriating events happen, it does have the effect of “right-sizing” everything else, not to minimize but just to provide perspective of what …

This post is inspired by the AMA (ask me anything) trend on imamother.com (a website I enjoy perusing for mild entertainment value, yummy-sounding menus, and reasons to be grateful for the problems I do have, oy). In the spirit of an actual AMA, I posed a number of…candid questions to myself that the clueless-but-curious might want answered about the life …

Hello, all. I hope you had a meaningful Yom Kippur. This time of year – new beginnings, Yom Tov, family time – often brings up emotions, so in that spirit, I present a companion post to “Things you don’t have to do just because you’re single.”

Thinking about work, in the vein of yesterday’s post. Six years ago I wrote about how lonely I was being the only frum person where I worked and how happy I was to change jobs to work with other frum people. It’s so interesting, now I kind of feel the opposite. I am the only frum person where I work …

This week ran away — I kept meaning to write but it just didn’t happen.   I’ve been itching to write in a forum that is not anonymous. So many thoughts on that. My anonymity allows me to write authentically about the many emotions of being single, in a way that’s true and deep and clear. But the anonymity is …

It happened in Disney World a couple years ago, in New Orleans, and in Austria: I kept thinking about what my children would enjoy. It was like psychically my mind knows I’m the right age to be traveling with children, so it scanned for kid-friendly activities, made schedule adjustments, etc. I almost always feel that my children are real, in …