A month of playfulness and grit
Welcome, friends, to the Hebrew month of Adar. משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה “When the month of Adar begins,” our Talmud teaches, “joy increases.” We want joy to be an easy thing, a thing that happens all by itself when — as Paul Simon has it — we have “soil soft as summer and the strength [...]
“Orion Reclines” two decades on
Twenty years ago, reeling from the unfathomably wrenching reality of tragedy at my college, I decided nevertheless to set sail on a mother-daughter sail-training cruise in the Caribbean. With five other women, we learned all about how to check the engine, set the sails, and navigate our way to the next island in time for [...]
These words, decades on, are still feeding me
Ever since I was a little girl, writing songs has been a way to deeply play in the world, to uplift the ordinary, and most importantly, to be able to carry in my head and heart the images and inspirations that were most dear to me. “These Are the Words” tells one version of the [...]
