
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
Virtual Poetry Reading, 1/22/23
Save the Date Jaclyn Piudik and I are excited to announce that The Writer’s Center will host a VIRTUAL reading featuring our book,...
- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
Virtual Memoir Class begins 11/7
I’m teaching a VIRTUAL Memoir Writing Class for the Marlene Meyerson JCC. It runs for six weeks, from Monday, November 7 through Monday,...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Writing Is Hell
Writing Is Hell I’ve been watching Barry on HBO. Barry | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com Bill Hader (@billfreakinghader) •...
- Oct 6, 2022
- 1 min
The Wise Owl Interview & Virtual Memoir Class
Somehow, it’s October. I don’t really know how it happened. Well, I do. I’m getting older, and time is moving quickly. And the Jewish...
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
- Aug 10, 2022
- 1 min
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Meditation and Prayer
Meditation as Prayer, Prayer as Meditation I do a guided meditation almost every morning. Here’s how it usually goes: I start to settle...
- Jun 2, 2022
- 1 min
Fall Day
I’m excited and honored to announce that my poem “Are We Like That First Fall Day?” has been published on Thewiseowl.com. It also...
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
They Call Me Mellow Yellow
I’m learning to like yellow. Not love, mind you, just like. That’s a big accomplishment for me. For years, okay, pretty much forever,...
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Gardens and Grief
I’ve started to think about the garden and the growing season. My father loved his garden and couldn’t wait until the weather was warm...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
The Art of Light
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, (1865-1935), one of the fathers of religious Zionism, said in a conversation with a Jewish sculptor, “When I...
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
Failing
I’ve been thinking about failure these days. I owe it to an interview with a man who is a glassblower. The interviewer asked, “What is...
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
Writing Like Riding
I’ve been working on a long poem. And by long, I mean around 30-40 pages. My father died ten years ago. I stopped writing about six...
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Opening Lines
I’ve been thinking about opening lines lately. “Call Me Ishmael”, or “Once upon a midnight dreary” or “It was the best of times. It was...
- Oct 5, 2021
- 1 min
Seduction: Out of Eden
Jaclyn Piudik and I are writing a series of poems about the Biblical story of Creation through the Expulsion from the Garden. Two Poems...