Artful Blogging Giveaway
Today is St. Nikolaus, a day I remember fondly from my childhood (see my essay Giving Up Christmas in Tablet, which, incidentally, is an excerpt from my book Jumping Over Shadows.) St. Nikolaus is a day of small gifts, and so, since I have, as a contributor to Artful Blogging, the opportunity to host a giveaway, I'm offering it today and [...]
8 Days of Chanukah Emails
I've got a new little project--not that I'm lacking for work or busy-ness, but holidays happen if you want them to or not. So this year, since Chanukah is so late in December, I thought I'd take the lead time to get organized. As part of that, I'm putting together a series of eight emails for Chanukah, one delivered [...]
A Writing Exercise to Spark Real Thanksgiving Conversations
One of my longtime memoir workshop students, David Thoele, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist, but he also serves as the Director of Narrative Medicine at Advocate Children's Hospital because he passionately believes in the healing power of writing. He developed and often uses what he calls the Three Minute Mental Makeover as a tool to get people to write who [...]
My Artful Blogging Story
Scottish Highlands, August 2015 Today the winter issue of Artful Blogging hits newsstands, and it features my photo essay "The Accidental Travel Blogger." This is a dream come true for me, and I want to celebrate by sharing a few photos that go along with the essay and by telling you how this came about. Being published in Artful Blogging is [...]
Gravestone Errors & Corrections
While we were visiting Minute Man National Historical Park last weekend, we stopped for lunch in the nearby colonial town of Concord, where I noticed two old graveyards in the middle of town. So after we returned to Concord from the musket firing demonstration and had some time before dinner at the Colonial Inn (dating back to 1716), my daughter [...]
A Visit to the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery
The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is a forest of its own. (Photo by Rivka Schiller) […]