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Handwashing, Mindfulness, and the Rhythm of Our Lives
For the past several months, running a childcare center that has remained open throughout the pandemic, one simple action has kept me grounded: washing my hands. Perhaps the most important of all our many...
Finding the Best of Ourselves in the Worst of Times
It was another age, and a different terror - September 11, 2001.
We were celebrating “Do the Right Thing Day,” launching our new character education approach at Schechter Westchester (now the Leffell School), where I...
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
These past weeks I have been experiencing the surreal sense of playing the part of a character in a historical fiction novel or movie, accepting and even striving to embrace the role given to...
The Day I Destroyed a Picasso
It was a mothering moment that now makes me cringe with embarrassment and remorse.
The basement, where my then five (now 24-year-old) daughter played, was suspiciously quiet. I rushed downstairs and saw my daughter from...
Working Mom Life Reversed: Meet Shira
After twenty-four years basking in the blessings and tribulations of life as a working mom (my daughter is 24 and my son is 20), I once again get to delight in diaper changing, finger...