Until a month ago, there was only one time I regularly went to a gym: that was what I call “The Summer I Worked Out.” My motive was admittedly suspect. At twenty years old, I was in my first ever real relationship, and my boyfriend was very different from the dorky, dark, artsy types I [...]
Archive for February, 2011
The One-Month Crunch
Posted in Food/Fitness, tagged gym, working out on February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Spy Camera
Posted in General, tagged camera, photography, photos on February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A few favorite photos from my phone, mostly from this summer: My father has just given me a beautiful digital camera that he wasn’t using, thus ending my somewhat hypothetical and half-facetious search for a spy camera. Until now, I’ve loudly and frequently defended using my BlackBerry as my primary camera: I like that it [...]
Prayer
Posted in Drisha, Jewish Journey, tagged energy, God, prayer on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was eleven years old. I was in love. He was a friend of mine, a classmate. He had red hair and freckles. He sang and danced and acted. He was nice. This was serious. I wrote a prayer that I said to God every night: Thank you for the food I eat, and for [...]
“I guess that’s just the cowboy in us all”
Posted in Art/Music/Theater, tagged country, music on February 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have a secret. When I was a senior in high school, my friend Amy shared a song with me that I had never heard before: “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack. …This was country music? Soon I was watching CMT (Country Music Television) whenever my father and brother were out of the [...]
Signs — Excerpts, First Draft
Posted in Art/Music/Theater, Drisha, tagged guessing, playwriting, signs on February 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s easier to wait for a sign. That’s what we pray for, really, isn’t it? A chance to not have to make our own decisions, a blessing from above that a scary choice will work out in the end. … The Talmud states that the letter saf represents emes, or truth. This might seem strange, [...]
