I’m Reading…
{August Break 8/6: I'm Reading...} I can never just read one book! My current bedtime reading is Yossi Klein Halevi's Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist. I loved his book Like [...]
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Aug, 2016
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Dec, 2015
A Comfort Book
The other day I cast about for a comfort book, something pleasant to read in the tub after a busy day. Usually that would mean an Agatha Christie mystery for [...]
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Mar, 2015
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in the Sunday Sentence Project(#SundaySentence on Twitter): "I held my breath at the miracle of my mother forgetting herself." from Sheymes, A Family Album [...]
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Mar, 2015
On Not Reading a Book
I didn't read the book for the December meeting of the Memoir Workshop I teach at StoryStudio Chicago. If the instructor doesn't read the assigned book, that's pretty bad, right? [...]
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Dec, 2014
Sunday Sentence
I just arrived in Jerusalem, and while I don't have much time to blog, I wanted to share a #SundaySentence from this brilliant book I've been reading since my arrival in Israel: [...]
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Nov, 2014
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in the Sunday Sentence Project (#SundaySentence on Twitter): "There is no collection that documents a person's life from moment of birth to moment of death. [...]
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Sep, 2014
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in the Sunday Sentence Project (#SundaySentence on Twitter): "I would ride up to Dairy Queen, the only place to go, and then I would just ride [...]
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May, 2014
When a Book is Done
I just finished a book I really liked, one I had been meaning to read for a while, and I'm sad it's done. That's the hallmark of a good book, [...]
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Apr, 2014
Sunday Sentence: China Dreams
Another Sunday in which I participate in the Sunday Sentence Project (#SundaySentence on Twitter) "I sat on the floor [...] feeling unfathomably happy at having known a sad man, at [...]
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Mar, 2014
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in the Sunday Sentence Project (#SundaySentence on Twitter): "The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a [...]
