Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 17, 2023
This blog will be short, simple and delicious in honor of national bagel week. Yes, food is not the be-all-and-end-all in the scheme of world peace, but a great melt-in-your-mouth cheese bagel can do wonders for your mood and others’ outlook as well.
So,...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2023
Happy New Year! Because this is my first column of 2023, I probably should be saying something motivational about starting fresh or taking advantage of the clean slate of a new year or making positive changes and resolutions.
It seems like there is...
By Sheri Glantz, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 5, 2023
"FLY!" That's the word that “flew” into my head as my middle child was on the cusp of graduating from preschool.
While it may seem to be an insignificant milestone, compared to the many others that we, as parents or guardians will face in the...
Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published January 3, 2023
We've written about a new year as a time to make obligatory resolutions in a quest to be better people. We know that resolutions can be about almost anything and even now, a few days past Jan. 1, you may already have broken one, two or a few of yours....
Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published December 20, 2022
As the year ends and some of us make resolutions, looks often come up in what we can change. We suggest a different strategy. Looks have never been topmost, though we like to look good. We have our reasons.
Growing up, Margaret's mother preached: "Pretty...
By Amy Fenster Brown, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published December 18, 2022
Happy Hanukkah! The candles are lit, the wax is dripping, the latkes are sizzling, and the house will smell like it for a week. Let’s celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah with eight random thoughts, one for each night, from my brain to yours.
I don’t...
Editor’s note: Amy Fenster Brown was part of the Light’s 2015 Class of Unsung Heroes because of her outstanding volunteer contributions. Here, she writes about what she knows, though she isn’t one to tout her many achievements.
It’s our favorite...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published December 6, 2022
A year ago, we spent New Year's Eve together and with a few others. Before the clock struck Midnight, we decided as a group not to share our resolutions since we often break the vows, setting ourselves up for failure. We adhere to the atavistic adage:...
Grief. A concept one can’t fully know until it snakes around and pierces your heart like a rabid animal.
I thought I was prepared for the inevitability of grief as I cared for my husband, Burt, with frontal temporal dementia (FTD) these past several...
