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 […]