Ending The Search

In this very moment lies an invitation to the Silence that reveals itself when you simply stop.Perhaps your mind is asking, “Stop what?”Just stop. Stop asking.Stop trying.Stop pretending.Stop believing your stories of whom you are or where you have to go.Stop thinking you know something don’t know something.How?There is no “how”; “how” is more mindContinue reading “Ending The Search”

A Book about Memory Quilts for Maya and Hailey

This year, as we light the first candle of Hanukkah on Thanksgiving, I am going to give my granddaughters something truly unique: a book I wrote for them about Memory Quilts. The idea came originally from my son who wondered if I could tell his children family stories as part of my writing? That leadContinue reading “A Book about Memory Quilts for Maya and Hailey”

Jacob’s Memory Lives

Louise,You created a quilt in remembrance of my six year old son, Jacob. With his 18th birthday coming up, I thought you should know how much your beautiful work of art has comforted me each and every day since then. My wonderful memories of Jacob will never go away and with his quilt hanging inContinue reading “Jacob’s Memory Lives”

Autobiography of a Quilt #3- The Love Nest

Fate brought us together by the stage door of the Broadhurst Theater after his performance in “Once Upon A Mattress”. He left that first night saying he had to catch the train. It was the Long Island Railroad that took him to a little apartment above the 24 hours Dunkin Donuts in Port Washington. HeContinue reading “Autobiography of a Quilt #3- The Love Nest”

Fabrics Included = Many Memories

Directions:Sew together four half-square 5″ triangles for each finished 6″ block. Make 120 blocks, ten blocks times twelve blocks, for a 60″ X 80″ quilt top. Fabrics included:Rayon print vest, two JJill hemp pants suits, Heath’s pin-whale corduroy shirt, Dad’s golf hankie, Billy Siegal’s mola remnants, Slave Boy remnants, Sun Dog Shirt, Mom’s 75th cremeContinue reading “Fabrics Included = Many Memories”

What Ever You Do, Smile

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh Thich Nhat Hanh This past July when President Obama turned fifty, there was a great article in the New York Times about his aging face. The bottom line is that no differentContinue reading “What Ever You Do, Smile”

The Jewish Love-In

There were no holidays so joyous for the Jewish People as the Fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippor, for on those days, daughters of Yerushalayim would go out dressed in borrowed white clothing so as not to embarrass those who didn’t have and dance in the vineyards located on the outskirts of the city. AndContinue reading “The Jewish Love-In”