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Ever since I married a Jewish man, I’ve been trying to figure out how to celebrate Christmas with my now-interfaith family. As a child, my family attended church on Christmas Eve; we set out cookies for Santa and waited to open presents. As the darkness of the night pressed close around, my family moved closer […]
When I was a child, I remember baking hundreds upon hundreds of Christmas cookies. We’d start with meringues, or perhaps sand tarts, thin butter cookies cut out in holiday shapes, with a brushing of egg and cinnamon in the middle that was just large enough to hold a bit of a pecan. These recipes made a […]
#BlackLivesMatter#ICantBreathe The hashtags float across my Twitter screen; the headlines scream their depressing news, just days apart. With no time to catch a breath from the news in Ferguson, Eric Garner too lost his time to catch a breath. “I am awake. I can’t sleep. So here I am, writing,” I tweeted in the early hours […]
My new post for the InterfaithFamily Network is online! My Jewish husband and I (a Unitarian Universalist) might not have known what we were getting into when we decided to raise our kids Jewish—but keep celebrating Christmas—my favorite holiday. That was ten years ago. Fast forward five years, to this past January. We took our […]
Advent is a season rife with expectation, whether you expect presents under a tree, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, or if you simply expect waves of emotions, joy, anger, sadness, stress. It’s not an easy time. Time was when I would have shrugged off the season’s less happy emotions. I think that was […]
