With two of my special friends who spent a day with Sammy Spider at the Community Party in Orange County, California last month. Sponsored by the Jewish Federation, the Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School, and PJ Library.
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First Graders and The Littlest Pair
Earlier this spring, I sat next to Janie, a first grade teacher, at a fundraising dinner. As teachers, we quickly found “common ground” and spent a lovely evening together. And, of course, my books came up in conversation. I wasn’t sure if any of my books would…
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PJ Library Conference
I had the most wonderful experience last week at the PJ Library Conference in Baltimore. Almost 200 PJ Library professionals assembled for work shops and team building activities. Camaraderie and enthusiasm marked each and every session. Especially meaningful for me was meeting my writing colleagues and we were told that…
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Keeping A Promise and Doing a Mitzvah
In September of 2005, my husband and I contacted the Jewish community of New Orleans and offered to visit at our own expense the children of New Orleans. But Katrina had just been too devastating and the community was still living with distant family, friends and in relief centers, and…
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Premiering on PBS January 31
My award winning book Reach for the Stars, A Little Torah’s Journey recounts the travels of a small Torah that passed from the hands of a dedicated rabbi to a young Holocaust survivor, and finally to Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who carried it into space on the doomed space shuttle…
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A New Journey Begins
Someone either said or wrote, “Life is a journey, not a destination”. A “Google search” linked me to a site that said it might be authored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but more likely Aerosmith – who knew? Over three decades spent with three year old children from 9 am to…
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