Tag: inspiraton

On Writing

I started writing as a young girl because stories materialized in my mind, like waking dreams, and I found that when I started to write them down, details unraveled: a stray cat walking down my block evolved into a story about a house cat who had lost his way after his owner had dropped him off miles away from home…

Ultra-Humanity

I heard a new broadcaster remark this week that it’s important right now that we “do not lose faith in humanity.” It was in reference to the 11 people that were gunned down at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. It brought me back to classrooms on college campuses, and how after our lock-down drills I would worry about the…

Mother’s Day: On Love & Loss

When I was younger, Mother’s Day and my birthday always blurred together with their being a few days apart. For my Bat Mitzvah, our Rabbi instructed me to write my haftorah speech about how my mother had impacted my life at that early age, and to pay reverence to all mothers. In retrospect, it was fitting, as my mother played…

On Being Great

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain I’ve noticed a trend on social media these days in which some professionals regularly publicize how many followers they have, or promote their rankings, or note why they are…