Last night I searched for something in Whatsapp and went down a rabbit hole rereading past conversations, as one does. Since most of my lengthier text-based conversations are punctuated by voicenotes, I started listening to those, too. Hearing voicenotes from the past year or two was like listening to an auditory montage of my emotional experience. I heard my voice …
Thinking about work, in the vein of yesterday’s post. Six years ago I wrote about how lonely I was being the only frum person where I worked and how happy I was to change jobs to work with other frum people. It’s so interesting, now I kind of feel the opposite. I am the only frum person where I work …
I meant to post this list around Labor Day but that didn’t happen. Some thoughts on a work life:
Yes, yes, I did this less than a year ago for 2023, and haven’t worked through that one (quite). But I needed a boost going into the new year, and I do adore a bucket list. I also noticed upon rereading my list for 2023 that a number of items focused on good habit formation, and though that’s generally a …
I read the poem “What to Remember When Waking” by David Whyte in a writing workshop: “What you can plan is too small for you to live.”
This week ran away — I kept meaning to write but it just didn’t happen. I’ve been itching to write in a forum that is not anonymous. So many thoughts on that. My anonymity allows me to write authentically about the many emotions of being single, in a way that’s true and deep and clear. But the anonymity is …
It happened in Disney World a couple years ago, in New Orleans, and in Austria: I kept thinking about what my children would enjoy. It was like psychically my mind knows I’m the right age to be traveling with children, so it scanned for kid-friendly activities, made schedule adjustments, etc. I almost always feel that my children are real, in …
So, picking up where I left us off (thank you for reading along!) On Sunday, we headed to Hallstatt. This is a small village which our guidebook said was a must-see. It turned out we had to take…four trains and a boat to get there. Part of that was probably due to relying on my phone for directions instead of …
Last week I came back from my break and I wanted to share a recap of where we went and what we did. This post ended up growing a lot longer than intended, so you’ve been notified. Austria was on my bucket list for years. My grandfather grew up in Vienna, and I grew up on The Sound of …
I asked an older friend/mentor for ideas about how to approach Elul this year, and she suggested that I learn about the basics of Elul and Rosh Hashanah from a sefer. She pointed out — and I have also seen — that learning about the things we did when we were younger, as adults, gives us an entirely new understanding …
