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Through the Door of Life
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders by Joy Ladin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Totally blown away by this book! In my professional live, working with HIV-infected individuals, it is not uncommon for me to encounter transgender individuals, but this book is written from the perspective of someone well-educated, literate,…
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Peeking through the door
If you’re “friends” with me on goodreads, you’ll know that I’m tearing through a book that I learned about through the podcast “On Being”. The book is Joy Ladin’s “Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders”. To start with the podcast, which aired June 20, and the program was titled “Gender and…
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Exhausted by first week of camp, restored by a low-key weekend
Last week, the boys were at Camp Shoresh – a camp located about 45 minutes from our home, in the middle of farmland and rolling hills in Maryland. S went there last year, and loved it, and this year, J joined him, rather than staying at the BK-ECC for their summer program. We love the…
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Listening…
I am a regular NPR listener, mostly Morning Edition and All Things Considered, but today I happened to be listening midday, and I caught the program Tell Me More, and, specifically, an interview with Neil Conan, who is apparently retiring from hosting the program Talk of the Nation (TOTN) which I have listened to, on…
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Fun in the pool
When we moved into our current home, the only downside we saw was the presence of a pool. This particularly the case of my dear husband, who investigated the option of filling it in. When he found out that it would cost several thousand dollars to get rid of it, we decided to get comfortable…
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Tot shabbat II
I mentioned in my last post that our most recent Tot Shabbat didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. And I promised a followup post to explain. Here goes! So, the first mention I made of Tot Shabbat, I described how difficult it was because J got so clingy, and wanted my undivided attention. I…
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Connecting Cultures…
Yesterday was a full day. It started with Tot Shabbat, in the morning at Tikvat Israel, and despite following the excellent advice of my friend Mary (Thanks, Mary!), the morning didn’t go much better that last month‘s (separate post on this to come). J and I drove the car to the synagogue, as we had…
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Allowing a community to support you
This month, the online book club From Left to Write read Those We Love Most, and this triggered a very personal memory for me: The Nature vs Nurture question often comes to mind as I observe at how different my kids are (all three – the biologic, and the adopted), but occasionally, the idea applies…
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Tending the garden
Carrots, after thinning. Ahhhhhh, room to grow! You, lettuces, will get thinned out tomorrow!!
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I’m not a creature of habit
Maybe that’s a good thing…maybe that makes me more flexible. I have tried. As a child, I wrote out detailed daily schedules for myself, but I could never live up to them. As an adult, I’ve come to a sense of acceptance about my inability to maintain habits. I did manage to rise to the…
