Climate Conference: “What the World Needs is Leaders Who Lead.”
And are we really going to leave Scotland without the resolve and the ambition that is sorely needed to save lives and to save our planet? How many more voices…
The Paperclip Project: Talking to Young People About the Holocaust?
I was supposed to meet a Florida writing colleague, Pat Gould-Black, in Whitwell, TN, today but I could not make it. However, here is a recap of its astounding Paperclip…
Anglophilia
This is a re-post from March 21, 2021. Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. In fact, the definition by Merriam Webster: Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English. Stratford-on-Avon…
Pain Sucks
I am coming out of over a month of pain. Throbbing, nerve-ending pain. Even though I enjoyed the beach for a week and then experienced Lake Erie and celebrated old friends at…
“Harold, I found the little people!”
In the middle of her 6th grade year, my daughter decided that she wanted to join a synagogue. What 12-year old does not want to explore their ancestry? And with her…
Will We Ever Learn? An Immigration Story
A friend’s recent inquiry about my origins had me revisiting the family history that my father, Zolman Cavitch, commissioned in 1986. His parents’ last name was shortened from ‘Kazekevitch-Rabinovitch’ to…
Ode to Cleveland, Part II
Despite the scare of Covid that kept many classmates from attending, vaccinated, I decided early on that I would go to my 50th Shaker Heights High School reunion. Though many of…
The World-Famous Palomino Club
As you will learn in my book, Rain Dodging, when I was younger I had a closet fantasy of being a cocktail waitress. As a young teacher, I fantasized about a…
Bliss on Lane Road
In the memoir strand of Rain Dodging, I document my turbulent journey to acknowledgement, but it hasn’t all been chaos and calamity. There have been periods of grace and calm. For…
A Lifeline: Bethesda Library
When I made the decision to leave my first marriage, I had a 4-year-old daughter and no job. My ex, in an attempt to scare me into staying said, “It’s…