Stories On My Mind

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August 25, 2008

Feiffer Says It Best


Sharon Shashi at August 25, 2008
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Contents

  • 63 Years And Here We Are
  • A Blanket of Many Colors
  • A Kind of Moving On
  • A Letter from Eve to God
  • A Long Soak In A Fragrant Bubble Bath
  • A Punch in My Belly
  • A Seder In Israel
  • A Sound I Heard Today
  • A Walk Through The Park
  • Adoption
  • Among The ScarsI Am The Wound
  • Antisemitism
  • Bits and Pieces
  • Enough to Break Your Heart
  • Everything's Gonna Be Alright
  • Friendship in the Golden Years
  • Hamba Kahle
  • He Brings Me My Tea
  • Heart of Stone
  • Hello My Little Mommy
  • His Pen Was His Sword
  • I Am The Child
  • In Celebration
  • Israel Independence Day
  • Masks of War 1993
  • Medical Negligence
  • My Aliyah
  • My Mother Rachel
  • My Poems
  • My Soul Rocks To The Sound of Our Family Seders
  • Nice People
  • Now That I don't Work WHo Am I?
  • Ode to Yehoshua
  • Of Toads and Princes
  • Our Soldier
  • Out of Control
  • Philosophy of Life
  • Point of View
  • Reflections on the Shoah and the October 2023 Massacre
  • Remembering Matanya
  • Rite Of Passage: Transitioning into a Retirement Home (part 2)
  • Rite of Passage: Transitioning to a Retirement Home part 1
  • Save Us From Kindly Ineptitude
  • Seder Night 2004
  • Shoah 2005
  • Singing With Dad
  • Something's Gotta Give
  • The Good Mother
  • The Last Time I Dated A Goy
  • The Piano
  • Then Came Covid - And Who Moved My Cheese?!!
  • Throw It In The Rubbish Bin
  • Very Hungry People
  • When We Moved Mom Into a Nursing Home
  • Widowhood 101
  • You Can Take The Girl Out of South Africa

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Welcome to Stories on My Mind

I'm a lifelong essayist and storyteller. This blog is a collection of personal essays and reflections about the winding path of my life, first in South Africa, where I was born, and later in Israel, my emotional and ideological home.

I write to understand, to remember, and to make sense of what love, loss, family, and aging mean in the real world.

My themes touch on adoption, childhood institutionalization, widowhood, self-identity, living as a Jew in a hostile world, and other aspects of the human experience.

Whether you're here as a parent, fellow writer, or simply someone drawn to honest stories, I'm glad you stopped by.

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Heeding The Call To Adventure

"The call to adventure can arrive in as many different forms as there are women to hear it. But, whatever shape it takes, its purpose is the same. It is asking her - imploring her - to leave behind the comfortable world of her ordinary existence and for a time to venture to a challenging unfamiliar place. It is asking her to set out on her own hero’s journey – a journey which is completely unique to her. For many the journey only takes place in the mind, the heart and the spirit. Either way it is primarily an inner journey, which takes a woman out of her ordinary world with all its ordinary assumptions to transform the way she thinks and lives – from weakness to strength, from grief to purpose, from despair to hope." Awakening in Midlife by Kathleen A. Brehony, RIverhead Books 1996
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