My Niece’s Bat Mizvah drash sheds light on the “Me Too” Movement. — My Niece’s Bat Mizvah drash sheds light on the “Me Too” Movement. Watching my niece read her sermon, I had to keep the tissues handy watching my niece own this piece of cultural history. Hi, I’m Alexa. Today I get to talk about one of the most interesting parts of…

Dinah of Genesis finally gets to say, “Me, Too.” — Dinah of Genesis finally gets to say, “Me, Too.” I am not a Jew, but I feel so fortunate that my brother chose to become one when he took his first wife. (Sounds so biblical, doesn’t it?) Through him, I learned so much about Judaism that none of my Jewish…

Tech talk for time travelers—conservation for preservationists — As Climate Change goes from An Inconvenient Truth to Something We Can’t Ignore to The Way We’ll Have To Live The Rest Of Our Lives, I’m ready to normalize conversation about it and bring action into every part of my life. As a lover of historic recreation events, I often…

To be a successful writer (or artist, or anything that involves money, relationship, or consistency), we are now supposed to think of… — To be a successful writer (or artist, or anything that involves money, relationship, or consistency), we are now supposed to think of ourselves as a brand. For years I have helped other artists and creatives to try to craft their image, but I can’t seem to do it for myself…

Could this be the word we have been looking for? — There is a moment in my graphic novella, The Reason She Left, where the questioning protagonist brings a conversation about epistemology to a standstill. The characters are talking about how the suffix “-ism” is used to classify a thought system, like like optimism or pessimism, sadism or masochism, nihilism, realism…and…