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…]
Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of her grandmother’s birthday, Stefanie Levine Cohen explores how we perceive the passage of time. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
Stefanie writes about facing the reality of moving day for her youngest daughter as she leaves for college. [Read more…]
Stefanie explores the physiological and psychological discomfort of evening shadows. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Stefanie’s story, “A Lifetime to Go,” has been published in the Winter 2015 issue of Limestone, a literary journal at the University of Kentucky. You can also read the story on the Limestone website. “What [Read more…]
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