Get Your Head In The Game

Preface   November 2007 “But Mommy, I don’t know how to do that!”  Although he didn’t yet know how to fully verbalize the complexity of his emotions, I could tell by the tone…

Preface   May 1978 “I’m glad you only have to wear that for awhile. You look so ugly!”I looked in the mirror at the patch over my right eye, and had to agree…

We all start out so unabashedly unashamed.   Whatever makes us unique, different, special we regard without concern; we flaunt without a care. Then, we (or our child) change.   Someone.   Somehow.…

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror…

Preface October 2015 “Hey, you seem like something is wrong. You seem off. I noticed you with your handicap, struggling with your bags on the way here and I don’t like the way…

The laying of tefillin is one of the most important Mitzvot (precepts) of the Torah: “You shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they should be for a reminder between…

Preface   October 1979 “On Rosh Hashanah it is written; on Yom Kippur it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die”¦..”In that moment I carefully slipped my one fingered hand into…

Preface January 2004 The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee stared at me, becoming visibly upset, then at John, then me again and spoke matter-of-factly, in the same tone as if he was…

  Preface July 1977 “Oh, they built the ship Titanic, to sail the ocean blue, and they thought they had a ship, that the water would never go through”¦”     I looked…

Preface   June 1989 “When the bus arrives, be sure to make sure the girls in your cabin feel welcome.   This place is highly competitive during the day as you all know,…

Preface June 1977 “Teddy, let’s play!”I had held up my two one-fingered hands, bending them up and down and offering my right hand, lovingly named “˜Cutlet,’ for my younger brother to play with.…