See my September 2009 column about the blessings and the curses of kosher restaurants. I ate so well in New York and Chicago this summer. Planning Miami next! In case you didn’t click quickly enough, here is a screen capture of my Rosh Hashanah On Faith blog for www.washingtonpost.com. I hope everyone is having a …
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See my Rosh Hashanah personal essay for the On Faith blog, a joint project of Newsweek and www.washingtonpost.com. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/09/a_mothers_holiday_vow.html?referrer=emaillink And here’s the pdf… A New Mother’s Holiday Vow By Natasha Rosenstock In my single days I would attend multiple classes designed to help me figure out my character flaws and work to make myself a …
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See this post for my August 2009 Column and Na’amat Woman personal essay about Avital.
I recently had the privilege of meeting Afghanistan’s Ryan Seacrest, Daoud Seddiqi, and watching the documentary, Afghan Star. Daoud is the host of the show on Tolo TV, an independent television station in Afghanistan. From 1996 to 2001 music was illegal in Afghanistan. Watching TV and dancing were illegal. You can imagine the death threats …
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I hadn’t taken the metro since the accident on the red line. This happened while I was in Chicago on business. It was actually the opposite end of the line from where I take it, just as an fyi. Anyway, every day I heard about long delays so I counted myself lucky that I …
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We are back from Chicago! Whitney’s memorial service was a fitting tribute, especially in that we got to hang with her Mom, Vicki and stepdad, Mort. Their generous spirits are a testament to why Whitney was/is the beautiful soul she was/is. I guess I’m a grown up because I’ve now given my first eulogy. Whitney’s …
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Where does the time go? I can’t believe I haven’t posted in so long. I want to share my column from May about Whitney. Of course as soon as it was published we changed the location of the memorial event from the beach to Kristin and Andy’s house. However, I agree with Lani, we can’t …
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I dreamt that Whitney (see previous post) came back to hang out with us. “Us” being her old friends who miss her dearly. She said, “What did you expect? That I’d just leave you? Of course I wouldn’t do that.” In my dream she had her long blond dreads and was full faced with a …
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Here is my latest column, inspired by my joy, my daughter. I was looking forward to sharing that joy with my friend Whitney. Unfortunately, life got in the way and I didn’t get to it before it was too late. My daughter, My joy Inspired by her cousin’s eulogy, I’m creating my own Whitney list …
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I’m once again in danger of having my blogger status taken away. But definitely not my mother, worker, be all things to all people totally overwhelmed typical female persona…status. J I had such baby brain the other day and was trying to go fast to get so much done I did something really hysterical and …
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