Liz Lawler
Having kids, a job, a dog to walk, all makes transcendence a bit of a reach.
Jews, Drugs, and the Muck of Daily Life
Author: Liz Lawler
Liz Lawler writes, practices and teaches yoga, tends to a man, a son, and a dog (in no particular order and with very little grace). She lives in Brooklyn with the lot of them. Now you’ll excuse her, while she breaks up a dog/toddler fight.
Women, Work, and Monetizing Misfortune
Liz Lawler
Thinking about nannies, daycare, and money summons feelings and knee-jerk opinions that I’m often loath to share in public. But here goes.
Homeschooling While Orthodox
Liz Lawler
The Yeshiva system was an exotic new world I discovered post-conversion, along with gefilte-fish and dreidels.
Choosing to Homeschool
Liz Lawler
What’s your gut reaction to homeschooling? Did you just wrinkle up your nose?
Mourning Leiby Kletzky
Liz Lawler
I found out about Leiby Kletzky’s death when I was settling into a yoga class. The instructor dedicated the class to him, adding that he had been found, and that he… Read more »
Chop Me Up For Spare Parts
Liz Lawler
So, here is a pop quiz: are Jews allowed to donate organs? Yes. I ask, because it turns out that many people are wrong on this count. Enough Jews are… Read more »
The Passover Purge
Liz Lawler
Are you gonna finish that? If you do, are you going to keep it down? The Passover Purge has me thinking about bulimia and Jews. I hear the word “purge”… Read more »
Horton Hatches Her Own Egg: Yes, I had My Own Baby
Liz Lawler
My child was intended. Meaning—I intended his life, and intended to parent him. There was a decisive moment when we entered into “the process” so to speak. So I remember… Read more »
No, This Isn’t PMS: You Are Just Really Annoying
Liz Lawler
I did an about face this month. I decided to stop believing in PMS.
It’s kind of pathetic, but I hadn’t even considered the culturally fabricated origins of this bio-myth until stumbling across this debate, in a blog that I sometimes read. It was kind of like finding out that the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist—obvious in hindsight, but earth shattering in the moment. Because let me be clear: I have blamed my hormones for a LOT.
Strangled by a Pink Ribbon Or: Breast Reconstruction Surgery 101
Liz Lawler
I recently took a teacher training program to learn to teach yoga to cancer survivors (if you are so inclined, this is the one to take, IMHO). Tari devoted a large portion of the program to the challenges posed by the “reconstructive surgery” process. It turns out that, in an effort to return women to “femininity” and “normalcy” (not my words), we end up limiting their range of motion.