Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
My friend made the most delectable treat for Friday night a few weeks ago. We ate together at another neighbor in our building and she brought them along. I just had to share. Here are her instructions:
Making Space
This article from Ingrid Fetell Lee was right up my alley (she also wrote this one). In it, she writes about the three things that helped her when she was single (before marrying in her 30’s):
Design Your Summer
When I worked along the school calendar, I had summers off which I have to say was a regrettably underappreciated part of my previous job. Now I have a typical twelve month work calendar, but I don’t want summer to pass me by. My first year working through the summer, I took a short hiatus to visit my sister in …
My Theory of Shidduchim
Over the years, I’ve taken a fair number of courses and workshops and listened to speeches and read books about shidduchim. And of course gotten lots and lots of advice (mostly unsolicited). I’ve heard my share of “What do you have to do to be married in six months?” and “You just have to decide that you’re going to give …
Tefillah Burnout
I’m struggling with tefillah, both the formal davening-from-a-siddur kind, and the emotional asking-Hashem-for-my-deepest-needs kind. The only kind of tefillah that feels doable and available to me is the informal talking-to-Hashem-briefly-throughout-the-day-mostly-to-say-thank-You kind. My friend says this is very natural as this is what happens after years of davening for something and hearing no. It gets discouraging. It gets frustrating. It burns …
Cool Volunteer Opportunities
I’ve been looking around for a meaningful volunteering opportunity. I loved how some of these sounded but for one reason or another they won’t work for me. Sharing in case you happen to appreciate this sort of thing:
Time Traveler
If anyone had told me ten years ago what the next ten years would look like, I would have never, ever believed that I could make it through them. I guess it’s good that we don’t get told these things!
How Was Your Pesach?
Hi, all, I hope you had a good one! I did b”H, and honestly I don’t know what it was that made it so. (Some years are hard, and some are easier). First and second days, we had married siblings over with their families, and on Shabbos chol hamoed I stayed home myself while my family went away because I …
Chag Kasher V’Sameach!
I really love Pesach (admittedly, I don’t cook and hardly clean so that might be part of it). I’m looking forward to the next week and a half with my family. I am b”H on track with my to-do list and was looking for a nice thought to share about Y”T, but was a little tired and didn’t make much …
Feelings Wheel
Quick housekeeping note: if you are receiving this post to your inbox, I just want to let you know that I won’t be sending out emails for the foreseeable future because it has given me some tech issues — I realize that I never sent out an announcement about that so here it is a few weeks late! So sorry …