Close Enough for Momma, Too Close for Me
24/12/2006
Being just a bell ring away won’t do for a guilt-wielding mother.
Being just a bell ring away won’t do for a guilt-wielding mother.
My plane was plunging, but life would go on.
Burning a card, burying a raw deal in marriage.
If my friends heard my story from a man, would they so easily absolve him?
You get obsessively vigilant when you realize having a baby is not just up to you.
Intimacy we struggled for in my childhood seemed to vanish with his ashes.
Pledging much more than his heart.
As Hezbollah and Israel battled, my fight for freedom seemed pointless.
In the tricky surf of a May-December match, the “best summer ever.”
An Irish boyfriend competes with the tug of letters from my Jewish great-grandmother.