Last week I enjoyed a long-awaited trip to the Met. I was so happy to finally be going back. It was already a few years since my last visit. I haven’t been on vacation since last summer but a trip to the Met is a little tiny bit like a vacation. I wanted to do an exercise I’d read …
Yay, I’m done with that Creative Arts course! It would have been so fun without all the papers. But I did take away a few helpful things and one of them is that I really love poetry therapy. I know, shocker. Poetry therapy, according to the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, is the use of “the written, spoken, and auditory …
I went in search of Himalayan pink salt this week. Ever since I read that yeast likes the minerals in Himalayan pink salt, I’ve had this “thing” that my challah dough needs to be made with it. It’s not always easy to find in stores, but a few months ago I found a bag in Home Goods in their specialty …
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 …
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 …
Hi, everyone. I had a few topics floating in my mind for what to write about this Monday, but I keep getting the feeling that something is missing from this space. What are the gaps in the subject matter we’ve covered so far on the blog? Any questions you want answered about shidduchim or more broadly about the experience of …
Remember how I said that I wanted to learn how to bake challah? Well, it’s happening. I’ve actually been interested in learning how to bake challah for months, since long before my “Shabbos project.” One of my friends offered to teach me back when but then the lockdowns happened so that was put on hold. A few weeks ago …
Ever since I read the Rebbetzin Machlis book, I wanted to get more involved in making Shabbos. It was more of a wish/dream instead of an actual goal because I kept running into this resistance in my head that told me that making Shabbos before I was married would just be “pretend.” One of the positive developments for me …
I got the term “the America feeling” from Gretchen Rubin. It perfectly captures the patriotism + transcendence I feel when I have certain experiences. Like visiting Washington, D.C., which I’ve done many times, especially walking around the congressional office buildings. (How cool is it to stroll past office suites marked “North Dakota,” “Louisiana,” and “Texas” and watch mysterious and official-looking …
