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Israeli poetry evening
On March 23, I greatly enjoyed and helped to facilitate an evening of Israeli poetry in Los Angeles, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the state. For my portion, I read…
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Learning from the Embera of the Panamanian Rainforest
Reporting on a January 2023 trip Arriving in Embera Quera was like arriving in paradise. On the way to the village, as our dugout boat was gliding through the rainforest,…
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Publishing an essay in Parabola and reading it at CWCLB
Delighted to see my travel/spirituality essay “Out of the Dark Depths” come out in the current, Winter 2023 issue of Parabola: The Search for Meaning. Parabola is a popular, New…
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The Magician by Colm Tóibín – my book review in Lambda Literary
Lambda Literary published and included in its December mailings my review of The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s novelized biography of Thomas Mann, Germany’s greatest 20th century writer – and a married…
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Travel/spirituality essay to come out in Parabola
Super excited: my travel essay “Out of the Depths of a Mayan Burial Cave,” based on a mind-opening spiritual experience in Yucatan, has been bought by Parabola (New York). Can’t…
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“The iPad Wars” Published by the StoryHouse Writers’ Showcase
My parenting essay “The iPad Wars” has been picked up by the online StoryHouse Writers’ Showcase of The Preservation Foundation, a literary non-profit which has been “preserving the extraordinary stories…
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“A Mindful Pilgrimage” in ZCLA’s Water Wheel
We started in a circle, hands in gassho, chanting “mu.” The sound first vibrated throughout my skull, like an inner bell inviting me to turn inwards, and then, when shared…
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“Caps Off to You!” A Fathers’ Day feature on FamilyEquality.org
Happy Father’s Day to all parents out there! So glad for the opportunity to share the experience of watching our first child graduate from high school – a new frontier…
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Lit agent search using Publishers Marketplace
My advice piece for fellow writers on how to find and build a list of prospective literary agents landed on the front page of the California Writers Club quarterly newsletter.…
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At AWP22: Moderating a Panel and Reading
#AWP22 was a swirl of activities as the literary world is emerging from the downtime of the pandemic. What a difference from the last live AWP convention, March 2020 in…
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Guide for future foster/adopt parents published on #1 adoption site
Glad to share my firsthand experience and research into foster/adoption policies and history on Adoption.com, the world’s largest adoption website and adoptive parent platform. I hope it will make a…
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“Raising Them to Be Strong” Featured in Bay Windows
Bay Windows, Boston-based LGBTQ newspaper and news site, appoached me asking to reprint “Raising Them to Be Strong: A Gay Dad’s Reflections on Parenting Daughters,” my Father’s Day article published…
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“Raising Them to Be Strong” | Father’s Day Post on Family Equality.org
Happy Father’s Day 2021! It’s been a deeply fulfilling, spiritually transformative journey for my husband and me. Our story, featured today on FamilyEquality.org, the nationwide LGBTQ family advocacy organization, recounts…
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Reading a New Story Live at AWP21
Read “The Grass Eater,” my new personal essay as part of a live virtual reading organized by the AWP Creative Writing Caucus at the virtual AWP 2021 on March 4.…
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“The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show
This was a new performance format for me to learn – I’d taped myself reading the essay “The iPad Wars” for City Tales, the annual storytelling reading by LACC students…
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“Christmas Dreidels” in The Citadel 2020
“Christmas Dreidels” explores one gay couple’s experience of building an adoptive family built on the richness of Jewish and African American heritages, one in which widely diverse cultural, racial, and…
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Mujerista Theology, or Finding Sacredness amidst Poverty and Oppression
This post is part of Blessing the Sea 4. Is search for the sacred a class privilege? Or to put it differently, are the opportunities to touch the divine –…
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Spirit and Spunk of a Merchant’s Wife
This book review is part of Blessing the Sea 4 newsletter. Gluckel of Hameln’s memoir has many layers. Written in simple, vivid language for her children over 300 years ago,…
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Serialized Blog on Morning Prayers as Meditative Practice
The Applied Jewish Spirituality institute in Jerusalem published my 3-part mini-blog called “Setting the Right Intention with Morning Prayers,” which describes how to set up an individual spiritual practice that…
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Article in The Forward: This High Holiday Season, We Are in Charge
Delighted with my first publication in a major Jewish newspaper: an opinion piece in The Forward on the challenges of celebrating Jewish High Holidays amidst the unprecedented synagogue and communal…
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