Anne and I have been enjoying this most Canadian and international city the past couple of days. Although proudly Francophone, everyone we meet speaks English and, with typical Canadian empathy, switches to it immediately on figuring out our incapacity with
Eva’s Twentieth Yartzeit
Tonight begins the twentieth yartzeit for Eva, marking twenty one years since her death transformed our lives. Yartzeit marks the Hebrew date of her death, the 2nd of Av. Yartzeit is Judaism’s way of remembering the dead, but it is
Watching the Tour de France
Every morning for the next three weeks I get out of bed at the crack of dawn. I make my coffee, then turn on the TV, and watch these skinny guys in ridiculous clothes ride their bicycles 2500 miles around
Without Jenny is Published!
Please join me on one of two Sundays, April 22 or April 29, to celebrate the publication of my novel of grief and recovery, Without Jenny, by Koehler Books! We’ll sip and schmooze and I’ll spend a little time speaking about the
Turning a Heart of Stone into a Heart of Flesh
This line from Ezekiel 36 was a big theme of my weekend; First I read it in Rabbi Naomi Levy’s “Einstein and the Rabbi,” then it was the Haftorah at services on Saturday morning. I recognize myself in this line;