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The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!

True Repair: Yom Kippur, Why Apology Matters, What Heals?

Next week’s Jewish High Holiday Yom Kippur brings many thoughts. My childhood memories of that day are spotty and mostly painful. Our dad being the cantor was more nervous and irritable than

Indivisible: Apartheid, Visibility, Melting Pot

Again, so strange these flights of memory. I remember years ago Bessel saying that trauma is a looping cycle, a carousel of remembering and forgetting, both in the micro and the macro.

Spine and Voice in Oxford: Neglect Informing, Interdependence, Repair

I woke up with a start after my unheard-of, third-in-a-row, almost eight-hour night of sleep. Amazing. I am not sure if it is sheer and total exhaustion from all the excitement, stimulation

Mixed Reviews: LOL, The Bermuda Triangle Revisited, Three R’s

I was stunned, several weeks ago, to hear from a very old friend of mine, out of the blue. I mean a really old friend, whom I had not seen in almost

Allez! Olympic History, Gender, Loss

Perhaps I am one of the few who has not been watching the Paris 2024 Olympics, but that notwithstanding, I could not help but hear the news. Simone Biles crowned the “greatest

Nothing is Lethal: Assassins, “Transition Sites,” Seeds

I am often fascinated by what things stick or don’t stick in my memory from the near and distant past. I’m not even talking about traumatic memory, although that definitely fascinates me,

“Vot You Vant!” Love, Trees (and Cheese), Indomitability

One of the charming differences between my husband and me, (and admittedly not all of them are charming!) is that he is happy to pack and schlep a massive 575-page volume as

“Sociostasis”: Words, Husbands, Attachment

I do love words. I asked my husband, does everyone read books with a massive dictionary at their elbow like I do? I am fairly literate, but I don’t want an interesting

Assisted Living: Teachers, Learning to Whisper, Recovery

It is always my intention to be reliable and consistent, so please receive my sincerest apology and regret for being late with this week’s blog. I think we should all have a

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