Category: Relationships

Recently I had a dream that my cousin (the one I’ve traveled with and done so much with) got engaged.

The Midnight Fair, by Gideon Sterer and Mariachiara Di Giorgio, is a sweet, wordless picture book about forest animals visiting a traveling fair at night when all the humans have gone home. The illustrations depict the animals having fun on the rides, playing at the arcade games, and eating treats from the food stalls. A touching detail shows the animals’ …

Five years ago (five? years? ago??), I babysat two nephews when my sister-in-law went to have her baby during COVID.

Against my better judgement, I picked up a few frum publications over Yom Tov and curiously flipped through them.

Recently, I read Rules for Visiting, by Jessica Francis Kane, for a book club I facilitate at work. In this novel, the quirky protagonist, May, gets a few months off work and uses part of that time to visit old friends.

I’ve been thinking about a particular kind of loneliness that’s deeper than having limited social connection.

I have to say I resonated with so much in this article,

The other day I was shredding my big bag of papers(!) per this year’s list, when I noticed a $319 charge for Ancestry.com on an old debit account statement. “That’s strange,” I thought.

Recently I taught my students about growth vs. fixed mindset. This concept is often used in educational settings. How do we look at ability? Is it predetermined, or can we work at something and improve? Studies show that students who are taught to have a growth mindset — to keep trying and learning from failure — are more successful in …