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Biblical names are hot again.
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.