The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.