One of my go-to writing haunts on the web is the Interfaith Family Network, where I blog semi-regularly about interfaith (Jewish-Christian) marriage and parenting. I’ve found the space a non-threatening way to do what doesn’t come naturally to me: share my evolving thinking about a topic while my thoughts on it are in-process. Because the organization/website/blog […]
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InterfaithFamily blog post — The Unintended Consequences of Blintzes for Blitzen
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 […]
Holidays as a time of joy, or stress?
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 […]
