Artifacts: My Father’s Script

Artifacts: My Father’s Script

I’ve been distracting myself from COVID, not with writing, but rather, with cleaning out closets. I’m coming across important artifacts from different times of my life (not just expired medication and ancient toothpaste). One such artifact was my long form Canadian...
Audiobook Recording Update

Audiobook Recording Update

After trying with a hired actress I decided to record the audiobook myself. Was this a good decision? Maybe yes, maybe no. My voice goes horse almost immediately. I have some funny vocal idiosyncrasies—a tendency to go quiet at the end of a sentence, to prolong some...
Jewish Book Council Re-do

Jewish Book Council Re-do

I presented My City of Dreams today at the Jewish Book Council via Zoom. It’s difficult to present your book in two minutes but here it is. If you are visiting from JBC, I hope you will take a look at the video I just recorded from our home on Diamond Ledge in New...
Old Folks

Old Folks

I now fit that definition.  They are going to step down the stay at home orders in Colorado on Sunday.  That means they will be opening beauty parlors and tattoo parlors, with proper social distancing, of course.  Not clear to me how that...
After Long Silence

After Long Silence

I’m sure we’ve all got stories about drastic change in our lives, serious and trivial worries (like should I just let the grey grow in?) My husband Martin and I arranged to rent an apartment in Denver last month.  Our medically challenged grandson turns one...
Out of the Woodwork

Out of the Woodwork

My father’s paternal cousin Michal Aurbach, age 99, called me from her retirement community in Kvar Saba, in Israel.  She wanted to let me know she was reading My City.  I was surprised for a number of reasons. For one, the...