Toy Dogs and Moons Give Thanks
It takes one person to tell her story. It takes a village to hear its meaning and give it wings. As we approach this North American Holiday of Thanksgiving, I want to express my deep gratitude for my amazing global community of family, friends, colleagues, neighbors and so many others who have supported and encouraged me […]
Sharing Our Stories
Shining a Light (Published in Women Writers, Women‘s Books, August 27, 2019.) From the time that I was a little girl curled up on my father’s lap, enchanted by his bedtime stories of fairy-tale heroes and heroines, and mythic far-away places where magical gods and goddesses could morph into animal shapes at will, I have […]
Childhood revisited:
My memoir about my childhood in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during WWII was released on August 27. But it’s not just my story. It’s the story of every child who experiences violence, deprivation, and bigotry. As we adults consume our planet’s resources and divide human beings because of the color of our skin or the deities we […]
A Mother’s “Foolish Idealism”
This week a daughter in Poway buried her mother, a victim of yet another vicious hate-fueled shooting on a House of Worship. As we send cards and flowers, and make phone calls and visits to our mothers on Mother’s Day, she will be grieving instead. And, at age eighty, I suddenly miss my own mother, a strong […]
School shootings and Trauma:
In a front page article entitled “School Shootings Leave a Long Trail of Trauma” the New York Times (Front Page: March 29, 2019) explores the lingering trauma to survivors of school shootings. On April 6, 2019, the Editor of the New York Times printed the following letter that I wrote in response to the article.: […]
Announcing the publication of my book:
I am excited to announce that the book about my childhood in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during WWII was published by SheWritesPress in August of 2019. The story in this book has been gnawing at me for decades, but for a long time I hesitated putting it out into the world. Writing about my childhood always felt […]