Maybe we can bow our heads to the truth that Gd gave us a pill-shaped lifeboat for when this exiled life gets too heavy.
Seven years later I could tell you that I’ve found the same venue for joy within observant Judaism, but I haven’t.
My outsider status was hard-won. Earned with my own blood.
There was something different about us, those whose parents came to halachic Judaism later in life -- and I wondered if it was just me who noticed it.
My wife and I are celebrating ten years together. But we chose to push off having kids.
People plan and G-d laughs. But what should we do after our plans go off the rails?
You have been given a special gift: a mother's gut. Now you need to expose its beautiful power.
I act like a nervous lunatic when I encounter people who upset me in the past. Maybe I should calm down and see them as fodder for an adventure.
Maybe you're breaking down because you're breaking open because there's a new you inside that's shrieking to come out.
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
