The morning after closing day, the quiet wakes me up. Startled, I look at the clock. It is six and ten minutes. It is past my usual wake-up time. Then I remember that we closed the motel the day before and dig deep back under the covers.  The regular hum of the cars on the […]

Is the lone red leaf on a soft mat of green that I detected this morning a sign of fall? “One swallow does not a summer make,” (Aristotle), a voice inside me resists. One red leaf does not herald a season, just like one flake of snow is not a sign of a coming storm. […]

“Do you remember?” I look at my husband. We’re sitting in the living room watching our favorite TV show. “Do you remember where we met for the first time?” I can detect that look in his eyes. The one that only recently appeared. It masks, I know from my own experience, a certain sense of […]

I open my eyes, I am wide awake, it is dark. I look at the clock on my night table; its red numbers glow in the dark. 2:13 a.m. The house is quiet. Way too early, way too early. The words circle in my head. The night just started and it stretches in front of […]

In the Jewish tradition, the one I grew with, new year practices take almost two weeks to complete. The start is the two days of Rosh Hashana that mark the beginning of the Jewish year. Then comes the “ten days of awe”, ten days of repentance when a person needs to go over his deeds […]