Featured Archives - Stefanie Levine Cohen

NASA image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, sometimes referred to as the "Eye of God" nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)

Discerning the Divine: An Early Experience of God

October 17, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on JewishSacredAging.com. When I was a little girl, maybe 7 or 8 years old, I was sitting in a grassy field enjoying a nice day. I don’t remember if [Read more…]

The Blessings of Dying A Little Death

October 7, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

In an essay prepared for the JewishSacredAging.com website, Stefanie Levine Cohen writes about how the Jewish High Holidays have changed as she has become an empty-nester. [Read more…]

Leaving Day

September 25, 2019 Stefanie Cohen

Stefanie writes about facing the reality of moving day for her youngest daughter as she leaves for college. [Read more…]

Silenced

December 7, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s 1865 and I live in Mississippi. I am a slave. My family has been enslaved as long as I can remember, but that’s just to white men. The kind of slavery I’m talking about [Read more…]

Lucky Lady

December 5, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been fifteen years now that I’ve been changing the dining room chandelier light bulbs. Fifteen years of paying the bills and sitting in the driver’s seat of the large blue Buick and cooking for [Read more…]

Zenia

December 3, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

When the sun descends from the top of the sky to the place we cannot see beyond the horizon, its glare is greater than human eyes can withstand. Its light reflects off the sea, [Read more…]

Softening Edges

December 2, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was unexpectedly calm at the precipice. Chase studied the yellow-green blades of new grass that poked through the sparse soil that barely covered the jagged rocky edge of the mountain. Delicate and strong. [Read more…]