Is Woman to Martha Stewart Living as Man is to Home Depot?*There were not a lot of copies of Good Housekeeping in my single-mother headed, early '70s SoHo home. However, my aunt had a lot of them....
Kadosh/Sacredness/Serial Relationships/Breaking UpThe Hebrew root KDS (kaf, dalet, shin) ties together separateness and sacredness. making them essentially the same thing. In a Jewish wed...
A Manifesto for Conscious HurtingNearly all of us are taught to “be nice.” Sometimes we are given some guidance on what “being nice” means such as, “if you don’t have any...
You Just Can't Get on the TrainI've been practicing feeling helpless. I have an amazing ability to believe, despite repeated disappointments, that when "it's all done" ...
What would Jessica do?I’ve been considering getting a “WWJD” bracelet, but I think it would confuse people. Mine would mean “What would Jessica do?” The centra...
Interview with Marge Piercy, 1997Link to PDF of 1997 Living Text: The Journal of Contemporary Midrash Interview with Marge Piercy by Kelly Washburn