Last Thursday I attended a webinar organized by Faith in Public Life Ohio called “Counteracting Anti-Semitism and Dangerous Narratives in the Time of COVID-19.” The call included several rabbi friends from the Columbus area with whom we partner in BREAD.  After the call I had an email exchange with Rabbi…

Listening to self-care techniques so much recently, I challenged myself to listen.  It seemed there were many broken threads from things I used to do – face-to-face visits with neighbors and friends, walks on the beach seeing new turtle nesting sites, eating out.  I was feeling frazzled and frayed. My…

From the vantage point of today, February feels like 100 years ago.  I also tabulated how many weeks I’ve been doing virtual classes from home, and I think this is the 10th week.  It feels like only a minute.  As weeks stack atop weeks, dates and events begin to blur…

I read slower now.  And I read as swiftly as ever. I was surprised several weeks into “lockdown” and working from (at?) home that I finish a book much slower now.  I love a good book – the only kind I read.  A book on my reading list is there…