My family and I just returned from an amazing vacation to Cusco, Peru, the capital of the Inca empire. Cusco is a great place to… Read More »Visiting Cusco, Peru? What to Pack and Things to Notice
Wednesday night marked the beginning of the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of the Ingathering). The holiday celebrates the end of the… Read More »My Father’s Sukkah: On Textiles, Reusing and the Creation of Traditions
The anticipation has been building for months, years even. A gradually-increasing excitement spread across the nation, as the population of half a continent geared up… Read More »A Shining Light Amidst a Total Eclipse: Lessons from Madras, Oregon
I used to think that thoroughly tiding up my house once a year was a pain. Well, I recently discovered that there is one clean-up… Read More »When You Die, Everything You Own Turns Into Garbage: The Sad Truth About Tearing Down a Loved One’s Household
My father in law had always been proud of his house, a three-floors-plus-basement townhouse just outside the old city of Bern, Switzerland. He liked to… Read More »On Objects, Spaces and Memories: A Still-life Portrait of My Late Mother in Law
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might remember that every summer my children and I embark on The Big Cleanup project:… Read More »Excavations, Realizations and Thoughts on Creativity
It’s been a year and a half since the Hamilton Craze swept over the land. Newspaper articles. Radio talk shows. Endless Facebook posts of friends… Read More »How Hamilton Turned a Middle-aged Mom into a Paparazzi, and Why You Should See It, Too!
Fifty summers ago, in 1967, 100,000 youngsters converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. What began as a concert in Golden Gate Park developed into… Read More »The Summer of Love: Still Relevant Fifty Years Later!