While in China this summer, I read as much as I could about the country’s “orphan problem.” I particularly loved The Lost Daughters of China, written by Karin Evans, an American adoptive mom of a Chinese baby girl.
Evans’ book overflows with perspectives personal, academic, and literary.
I’m invited to view your photos!!!
Your swaddled new infant, in pink cap or blue cap In mom’s arms, then dad’s arms, then still, fast asleep. I’ve seen it before, far too a lot of times over First smile! First bottle! First eyes open wide— Well I can’t be wide-eyed! Your blah blah baby bores [...]
Most people know what an domain name is, but a lot of don’t have a clue what web hosting is or how important it is. A domain name is the actual web address for your website, (e.g. www.mybusiness.com). Hosting is the space on a server/computer that stores all the files, data, web pages, emails etc. [...]
The most recent garment-related decree of Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, of modesty courts fame, has given us an great new marketing idea for Orthodox women’s fashions. In a recent talk, R. Elyashiv announced that contemporary sheitels, as wigs worn by married Orthodox women are often called, are not an acceptable way to cover one’s [...]
Needless to say, it’s been a long time since I’ve written. The fall months have swirled up and overhead, dried leaves rushing away from me, ungraspable. These months have been a whirlwind of academic rigor in my doctorate program, while the real conquest has been unspoken for. These months my mother has slipped quietly into [...]
(First of all. Last night.
Okay.)
Last year I left school for a semester to be a nanny for the baby of very close family friends. I moved in when she was four and a half months old, and fell deeply in love.
There were a lot of experiences I had there that I felt I shouldn’t [...]
Well.
I triple-checked the non-profit guidelines section of the IRS website, so it is without fear that I am endangering anyone here that I say: OH MY GOSH, WE WON WE WON WE WON*.
That’s a pretty nice feeling. And an unbelievable fit with this week’s parsha of Lech L’cha. Going to a new and unexplored land [...]
Today I was surrounded by eight ferocious dogs and saved by the power of Torah.
I was jogging, as I often do, near Ramat Rachel, a kibbutz hotel near the southern part of Jerusalem that overlooks Bethlehem and the Judeaen hills. Usually when I run that route, I go no further than the giant statue [...]
Google’s newish ‘suggested search’ function can be irritating, but it also gives you a feel for what’s on the mind of The Public. Like when you search “Hillary Clinton secretary of state” and see that nearly a 000 000 and a half other folks have done the same, you get that nice cozy feeling of [...]
Last Tuesday, as I flipped between channels, I was endlessly enthused by the number of people over 65 giving live interviews on television, and the number of people of all ages invoking their parents and grandparents.
Seeing older people acting as crucial sources of perspective in an election year, not as cute and endearing characters led [...]