Intimacy
A few months ago, a malicious third party made a comment about my mother, whom she had never actually known, that created distance between my mother and me. It was a puzzling, obscuring distance my mo...
27 Touko 20226min
Keeping Promises
As a little girl, one of my vivid memories of being caught in the wrong belongs to the gift a camp counselor once gave me. This gift-giving happened the last day of the season of the Day Camp that som...
25 Touko 20227min
Chronology
From precognitive dreams, where the future is recognizably predicted before it happens, we can infer that time is other than what ordinarily we think it is.
20 Touko 20229min
The Comparative Lightness of Being
Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism a...
18 Touko 20228min
Seizing the Narrative
Long ago, I waited in New York City for a promised letter from Paris that never came. My first love, not a good correspondent, nor a good keeper of promises, was a communist. Not a party member, but a...
13 Touko 202210min
A Woman’s Standing
What is standing, for a woman, and what is to be done about it?It’s a sign, ladies, of something we all know about: the unfairness of life.
11 Touko 20227min
The House in Maine
Having grown up in city apartments, owning a home had never been high on my list of desirables. In fact, co-inheriting one, when my parents died, felt like the hand of a heavy fate on my shoulders.
6 Touko 20227min
Country Gospel
Being born and raised a Jewish girl from Manhattan’s old-rent, upper east side, the last thing I’m expected to like is country gospel. Or so I’m often told.
4 Touko 20225min
