Andrea Kott
Some folks are turning this time into an opportunity to begin exercising, bond with family and pets, clean closets, or garden. I am reliving the Days of Awe.
Turning Days of Distancing into Days of Reflection
Tag: anxiety
Food for Thought on Passover
Nechama Liss-Levinson
Let’s create new rituals and weave our food deprivations into our holistic understanding of what this Seder is and what it represents.
Dispatches From an Anxious Life
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she’s not watching—that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away—Amanda treats every parting as her last. Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on. And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can’t help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true.