I recently wrote an alphapoem for my current writing course and want to share the process with you. An alphapoem is similar to an acrostic in that you write a word or phrase vertically down the left side of your page and use it to write your poem. However, whereas an acrostic purposely begins each line with the next letter …
Hi, all. It’s been awhile since my post about baking challah so I wanted to share an update. A few weeks after I started baking, one of my challah tutor’s kids was quarantined so I didn’t want to go to her house on Thursday night and I almost skipped baking that week. However, one of my friends insisted that I …
I took a workshop with Sara Yoheved Rigler and learned about the importance of charting progress when you’re working on changing a behavior. She taught a two-fold method: 1) chart what you’re doing in black and white, not just in your head 2) reward the body with something the body likes. She said, we come down here as a …
Sometimes if it feels as if you’re davening and davening and nothing’s changing. There was a period this year when I was so sure my yeshua had to be just around the corner, I had been davening with a lot of intensity, and feeling like maybe there was a breakthrough. But nothing changed, as far as I could see from …
A thought occurred to me over vacation (long car ride, many thoughts). 🙂 How do we maintain perspective and see our lives with a broad lens when it’s so natural to focus on the things we don’t have? Maybe we can learn this balance from tefillah. A complete formulation of tefillah includes shevach, hoda’ah, and bakasha — praise, thanks, and …
Hi, all! Last week I took a 3-day course for work and I was so busy (and tired) all week! It’s good to be back 🙂 Recently, I started saying Tehillim regularly with the Artscroll Interlinear Tehillim. If you’re not familiar, the way the interlinear works is that the translation of each word is written below it in a format …
