Penny Jackson
“But there is no other title. My mother is dying. This story is really for me.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Your Dying Mother.
Tag: motherhood
Jessica Keener’s Night Swim, A Decade Later
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later.
Do I Have a Right to Sing for Peace?
Rebecca Katz
A mother wrestles with her lullaby during wartime.
Nina Simon on Mystery, Murder, and the Unusual Jewish Mother
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Nina Simon reflects on her Jewish mother, environmentalist politics, and life transition in a new murder mystery novel.
Talking With Yael Goldstein-Love
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new mother dives headlong into a parallel world to find her missing son in Yael Goldstein Love’s new novel, “The Possibilities.”
A Tale of Midlife Self-Discovery
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Melissa Giberson found out that divorcing a husband of many years and telling her kids that she was gay was the hardest thing she’d ever done.
A Comics Artist Takes on Her Family’s War Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A comic strip about going into hiding during the Holocaust: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
Poetry: Sarah Asleep
Gail Newman
The latest midrash with a woman-centered version of the story of “the binding of Isaac.”