Selection of articles on various topics from 2011 – present.
On Friendship
I Get By With a Little Help For Your Friends (Moment Magazine)
Honey Cake, Old Friends, and Defending Facebook (TCJewfolk)
Big Friendship: Book Review (Herstories)
Why I Love My MahJongg Group (TCJewfolk)
The Importance of Couple Friends (Brain, Child Magazine)
Lessons From New Friends (Brain, Child Magazine)
Waiting For An Apology That Will Never Come (Kveller)
The Code Between Childhood Friends (Scary Mommy)
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General Memoir
Losing Grandma Twice (Modern Loss)
What I Accomplished While Watching Friday Night Lights (Scary Mommy)
The Making of a Broadway Fanatic (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Costumes of my Adult Life (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Last Days of 39 and Coming Home to 40 40 Lunches
The Only Way to Keep a Resolution is to Begin (Today Show Parenting)
Discovering the Day-Cation (Brain, Child Magazine)
How to Ruin a Hobby (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Lost Love Language of the Mixtape (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Adult in the House (Brain, Child Magazine)
Finding Joy in Activities We Dislike (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Summer I Rediscovered the Virtues of a Walk (Brain, Child Magazine)
Help! My iPhone Has Taken Over My Life, (The Jewish Daily Forward)
Why is Unplugging So Hard to Do? (The Jewish Daily Forward)
The Spanx Effect of my iPhone Addiction (The Jewish Daily Forward)
On Writing
Keep Your Old Journals: Maybe Even Transcribe Them (Brevity Magazine)
The Magic of The ModernWell Writing Groups (ModernWell)
On Writing: Letting Go of What’s Next (Woven Tale Press)
A Writer’s Frenzied Attempt to Capture Ideas (The Sunlight Press)
What Makes a Character Midwestern? (Huffington Post)
The Success Story of a Failed Novelist (Huffington Post)
Thinking Outside the Book: When a Writing Dead End Becomes a Detour to Success Anne R Allen’s Blog
Becoming a Morning Writer Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project
Confessions of a Former Query Letter Addict Write it Sideways
On Reading
The Books of Summers Past (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Secret to One Balebusta’s Success (TCJewfolk)
Late Night Readers (Today Show Parenting)
Is the Reading Public Excessively Cheap (Huffington Post)
Why I Don’t Trust Book Reviews Online (Huffington Post)
On Judaism and Community
Challah Back: Braiding, Baking, and the Mitzvah of Opportunity (On Being)
Are Voluntary Dues Enough to Get People to Join Synagogues? (JTA)
Waiting to Announce Your Jewish Baby’s Name (Huffington Post)
I Am Jewish For Me, Not For My Kids (Kveller)
Creating a New Path For a Bar Mitzvah (TCJewfolk)
Bar Mitzvah Options: No Easy Answers (TCJewfolk)
Back to Square One With B’nei Mitzvah (The Jewish Daily Forward)
Getting Dressed for a Modern Bar or Bat Mitzvah (TCJewfolk)
The Book That Finds a Healing Message In The Seder (The Wisdom Daily)
The Benefit of the Doubt for the New Year (The Jewish Daily Forward)
Stop and Smell . . . The Boredom (The Jewish Daily Forward)
Friday Night: Committing to This Shabbat Thing (Kveller)
From the Department of Rude: A Memo on Smart Phone Use at Shul (Kveller)
Waiting for An Apology That Will Never Come (Kveller)
How I Become a Sukkot Evangelist (Kveller)
Let My Hanukkah Go (Kveller)
Purim and the G-Word (Kveller)
Are Jews Too Concerned With Looking For Fellow Jews? (Kveller)
There’s a Difference Between Saying You’re Welcoming & Being Welcoming (Kveller)
No More Hanukkah Downer (Kveller)
5 Ways to Connect to Judaism Between Holidays (Kveller)
Why I Think Tisha B’Av is The Yoga of Jewish Holidays (Kveller)
This Rosh Hashanah, I Challenge You to Focus on the Positive,(Kveller)
This Year Hanukkah is Going to be Different (Kveller)
The Ten Commandments of Texting (Kveller)
10 Hosting Hacks to Make Shabbat Dinner Easier (Kveller)
The Rise of Reformadox Judaism (TCJewfolk)
On Jewish Ethics: Don’t be a Schnorrer (TCJewfolk)
Stop Blaming Hebrew School (TCJewfolk)
Jewish Superstition, Babies, and a Baby’s Name (TCJewfolk)
Living Jewishly: Book Review (TCJewfolk)
Three Ways to Fix a High Holiday Rut (TCJewfolk)
The Real Jewish Christmas (TCJewfolk)
How We Spend Our Days is How We Spend Our Lives (TCJewfolk)
Why Has the Seder Survived? (TCJewfolk)
Can Jewish Culture Exist Without Religion? (TCJewfolk)
Parenting
Call Me Mrs. Badzin (MotherWell Magazine)
Extra-curricular Crackdown (Scary Mommy)
The Case Against Party Favors (Brain, Child Magazine)
Losing the Handle on Treats (Brain, Child Magazine)
In Search of a Non-Exaggerated Compliment (Brain, Child Magazine)
In Praise of the Timer (Brain, Child Magazine)
The Perfect Double Stroller and Gaining Perspective (Brain, Child Magazine)
A Birthday Party Without Presents? (Kveller)
This is Three (Huffington Post)
Baby Names
Would You Let This Woman Name Your Baby? (Nameberry)
Name the next Kveller Baby (Kveller)
Name the Next Keller Baby Again (Kveller)
Naming Your Third Jewish Child (Kveller)
Looking for an Italian and Jewish Baby Name (Kveller)
Help a Convert Find The Perfect Jewish Name (Kveller)
Social Media Ettiquette
Let’s All Stop “Replying All” to Every Email (Kveller)
Stop Thanking Everyone on Twitter (Huffington Post)
The Art & Science of Twitter: Part One (Writer Unboxed)
The Art & Science of Twitter: Part Two (Writer Unboxed)
Simplifying Twitter: Be a Person, Not a Brand (Writer Unboxed)
How to Tweet so People Will Listen (Writer Unboxed)
7 Ways Twitter is a Writer’s Endless Holiday Party (Writer Unboxed)
Twitter Lists to the Rescue (Writer Unboxed)
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