It's the 100th anniversary of Jewish Book Month. This year we'll be celebrating it until Hanukkah, which begins on the night of December 14th. It's a good time to think about books with Jewish themes that inspire and inform readers. My award-winning memoir trilogy,...

Thanks to everyone at Temple Beth Hillel in South Windsor, CT, especially Helena Friedman, for their enthusiastic audience for my author talk. I wore a magenta glen plaid wool collarless tunic jacket to the event, one of the Sidonia originals displayed in our...

Thank you to Congregation Rodfe Zedek in Chester, CT, for inviting me to an author talk at your Bagels and Books program on Yom HaShoah weekend. It was a very enthusiastic audience with old friends and new acquaintances and great questions about my Sidonia's Thread...

Want to know more about how I write? Take a look at my interview with Book Goodies to know more about my writing process, my favorite authors, and my prognosis for the future of book publishing. It's all here! Let me know your thoughts about my interview.

It's one of those years when Hanukkah, the festival of lights, and Christmas coincide and join the start of winter! A great holiday gift that you will never forget is one of the books in the Sidonia's Thread series of memoirs. It is the sometimes heartbreaking,...