It is summer, a long time ago, and I am lying on a terrace overlooking an ancient garden full of rosebushes and fruit trees. The days have been so hot, the asphalt on the sidewalk melts under my feet if I dare step out of the house. At night, the temperature drops. My sisters and [...]
So there’s a fairy-tale wedding: a thousand guests in a flower-filled ballroom, a dozen violins playing Mozart, a grainy-voiced singer belting out an old Persian love song. The bride is 20 years old and ravishing, of course, but she’s also blessed with charm and charisma, the kind of exuberance that turns heads and drags stares [...]
Every year for Women’s History Month, I’m asked to address groups of people brought together to mark the occasion. Some years it’s at a university, a museum, or a foundation. This year it’s in the Milken High School library.
I like the idea, of course — to support the library and the school, to visit with [...]
I have a picture of my daughter the first time she dressed up for Purim. She is 4 years old, her bangs too short as a result of a self-inflicted haircut, her face round and perfect as a green apple. She is standing between her two brothers, an arm around each boy’s neck, a mischievous [...]
Review: An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender (Doubleday; 242 pages; $22.95)
With a voice as clear as water and a hand that is honest, light and sincere in its intentions, Aimee Bender steers her reader into the depths of her heroine’s private hell. In this fairy tale, Mona Gray is a 20-year-old math [...]
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