Spreading Her Love: The Ritual of Letting Go
My Mother’s Yarzheit.... Sedona, AZ March 21, 2017 Some people can barely suppress their shock when I tell them I…
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Home for the Holidays: Parenting in the College Years
My last two blog posts covered far-reaching trips I’ve recently taken to Africa and South America. When people asked me…
Gorillas: Who Rules the Roost?
I recently returned from a trip to South Africa and Uganda where I had the privilege of spending time with…
Daughter-in-law-hood
Have you read the Book of Ruth? Ruth is the ultimate daughter-in-law in the Jewish Bible. Even after her husband…
Inheritance
What gets passed down in a family is an important theme in Eden. What do we inherit? Money, possessions? Possibly,…
Matriarchy
During my lifetime, the closest thing my family has had to a matriarch was my grandmother, not in the fact…
The Mother – Daughter thing
I remember how painful our arguments were. Worse than arguments, they were downright fights, awful to even recall now. As…