Okaaay, folks! We’re back in business. Over the next few weeks, I am be”H going to be working on a series of posts on mindful dating. I brainstormed a list of topics about the stress and anxiety of the shidduch process, and I’m hoping to address them all in this series. You might relate to some or all or none …
This semester, I decided to audit a class called Creative Arts in Social Work because doesn’t that sound like fun? I didn’t have to pay tuition for the course, just a small registration fee and then to show up to the class and complete the work as if I was a real student. I had my eye on Creative Arts …
I don’t enjoy coconut-flavored anything. So over the years when I saw recipes that called for coconut milk, I just skipped. Because I don’t like coconut. Then, a few months ago, my friend asked if I could taste a dish she had cooked. It was chicken penne in a cream sauce made with…coconut milk. So I said, “Oh, it looks …
Chodesh tov! After the whirlwind of the past few weeks, it’s Cheshvan — time to pull out the sweaters and hunker down for a nice, long stretch of routine. It occurs to me that Cheshvan is a great time to sit down with a steaming cup of tea and a notebook and figure out how to actualize the insights …
Hi, everyone! I hope you had a good Y”T. Traditionally we wish each other a “good winter” after Succos. So, good winter to you š . A few years ago I wrote a list of things to do for yourself in the winter and I just did #4: buy something that makes your life easier. I finally bought …
My friend was trying to borrow a succah for the upcoming Y”T (as her plans changed due to COVID) and finally declared, “I’m going to stop asking around and just buy myself a succah. I need someĀ stability.” I couldn’t resist. “If it’s stability you’re after, you should definitely buy a succah. Now there’s a real symbol of permanence.” …
On Monday, I sat down to write a post about Yom Kippur. I opened up my blog. Clicked on “add new.” Looked at the screen. Didn’t write. On Tuesday, I sat down to write a post about Yom Kippur. Nothing. On Wednesday, I clicked open a bunch of other tabs until I had to go to bed. …
I learned the concept of the yearly direction from Rabbi Aryeh Nivin in hisĀ Elul course. Since the course is Rabbi Nivin’s curriculum, I’ll just give the general idea without the whole process. (I heard something similar from a friend taking a Dina Friedman course, but I won’t go through her process either in this post, I’ll just write the general …
Hi, everyone. I didn’t finish any books this summer but I started a bunch. I’m going to finish some eventually… These are not going in my total for the year but I’m in middle of: Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound, by Christine Stevens. This is basically a book about music therapy and using …
Rosh Hashanah is in less than two weeks and I don’t really know what to do with that. It’s been so many months without structure, I don’t have that “new school year” adrenaline rush that usually revs me up for the Yomim Noraim. I was reviewing previous Rosh Hashanah posts and it hit me that each year when I …
