Publications Archives - Stefanie Levine Cohen

On the Passage of Time

November 18, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of her grandmother’s birthday, Stefanie Levine Cohen explores how we perceive the passage of time. [Read more…]

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…]

Evening Light

August 23, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie explores the physiological and psychological discomfort of evening shadows. [Read more…]

Who Am I, and Other Pesky Questions That Don’t Go Away

July 24, 2019 Stefanie Cohen

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…]

Morning mists - Florida, by B K, via Flickr.com under Creative Commons 2.0 license

The Morning After

November 9, 2016 Stefanie Cohen

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…]

Truth Be Told

January 16, 2016 Stefanie Levine Cohen

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…]

A Lifetime to Go

January 4, 2016 Stefanie Levine Cohen

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…]

Shorn

July 25, 2015 Stefanie Levine Cohen

By Stefanie Levine Cohen Mother presses her index finger into her daughter’s ponytail. She notices it is taking longer to dry now that it is removed from the girl’s head than it did when attached. [Read more…]