Essays
Warriors Are Allowed to Cry
“Being all-in, all the time, was the only way I knew how to parent, and it was what my soul required,” writes Stefanie Levine Cohen. [Read more…]
Publications
Essays
A Reply to a Friend I Haven’t Met Yet
This week, JewishSacredAging.com contributor Carole Leskin shared her thoughts about the how the wearing of masks, necessitated by the current pandemic, exacerbates the isolation and loneliness so many are experiencing during these strangest of times. [Read more…]
Essays
On the Passage of Time
Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of her grandmother’s birthday, Stefanie Levine Cohen explores how we perceive the passage of time. [Read more…]
Essays
Discerning the Divine: An Early Experience of God
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…]
Essays
The Blessings of Dying A Little Death
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…]
Essays
Leaving Day
Stefanie writes about facing the reality of moving day for her youngest daughter as she leaves for college. [Read more…]
Essays
Evening Light
Stefanie explores the physiological and psychological discomfort of evening shadows. [Read more…]
Essays
Who Am I, and Other Pesky Questions That Don’t Go Away
Originally posted in Jewish Sacred Aging July 2019 Every part of me knows that healthy transitions are wonderful things—if life isn’t moving forward, it’s moving backward or stopping altogether, neither of which is good. Still, [Read more…]
Essays
The Morning After
I am struggling to maintain my world view. I am distraught, my faith in humanity deeply shaken. I am terrified of the pain that will be inflicted upon all of us, but especially those least [Read more…]
Essays
Truth Be Told
This Fall, I had the privilege of teaching a memoir writing course for the Salzman Foundation Life Long Learning Institute at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, NJ. The class, entitled Memoir: Telling Your Story, [Read more…]