The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.
I look forward and see myself look back.
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.