Jan. 8, 1993 What I Want to Be When I Grow Up Calendar. January: Ice skater February: Artist That’s as far as I got. (I was eight years old, and already procrastinating.) I do like the idea of a calendar for what I want to be when I grow up. A few years ago, when [...]
Archive for October, 2010
What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Posted in Drisha, tagged grad school, growing up on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Naomi
Posted in Yiddish, tagged Naomi, Yiddish on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, a girl named Naomi marched up to a few of my friends in shul at kiddush (when everyone is eating and hanging out, after services). “Is it true you speak Yiddish?” she asked. My friends–all guys–had been speaking to her father, and she was immediately and joyfully intrigued, because she [...]
Back to School
Posted in Drisha, tagged classroom, learning on October 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Julie does well with deadlines,” said my friend, who is a director I’ve worked with in the past. I smirk; his statement is not quite accurate. He must have read my mind, because he amends, “Well, really, she doesn’t do well without deadlines.” Now, this is true. It’s one of the main reasons I wanted [...]
Complaining After the Holocaust Museum
Posted in General, tagged complaining, holocaust on October 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
While I was in D.C. last week, I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I saw some things I had never seen before—really terrible, unspeakably disturbing footage, for example, from the medical experiments done on the victims—things that could only resonate sickly, dumbly, numbly in my mind as something too unreal, something too [...]
The Little Lights Near and Far
Posted in Jewish Journey, Poetry, tagged hannah senesh, hannah szenes, poem, prayer on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am in Washington, D.C. for the week, for a professional development opportunity that I have the amazing privilege to receive. While there will certainly be a lot to process—the training ends tomorrow—right now I want to share a poem titled “Prayer” by Hannah Szenes that was included in a worksheet on leadership: God, May [...]
“This is the story of our people.”
Posted in Jewish Journey, tagged holiday, learning, shul, simchas torah, torah on October 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are tons of Jewish holidays I didn’t know existed until I was 19 and began learning more about Judaism: Shavuos, Purim, Sukkos, Shemini Atzeres, and Simchas Torah are off the top of my head. (And don’t even get me started on the fast days—I still mix those up.) This week included Shemini Atzeres and [...]
