It was incomprehensible. Though I understood the words, I could not understand the announcement being made. The Hand in Hand school was on fire?…
The Ugly Side of Grief
Several months ago, I was out on a jog and passed a young mother with a newborn snuggled up comfortably in a baby carrier.…
A Call for Change
Today, I acknowledge the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their elders: past, present and emerging. I do…
The Quest for Originality
These past holidays I was really struggling to think of a topic for this assignment. Every idea I had seemed boring, familiar and unexciting.…
The Musical Journey of a College Nigun Circle
It’s a rainy, dark, cold Monday night, and I am surrounded by an Ethnomusicology graduate student from France, a freshman Dance and Neuroscience double-major,…
Can You Be A Practicing Jew And Also Believe In Science?
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks states in his book, The Great Partnership that “Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things…
Baseless love – the only solution to its antithesis
Bus rides- a somewhat stressful experience. First, comes the frantic search for my bus card, moving quickly so not to hold up the line…
Being Alive: Finding Myself after Mourning
I joined a musical workshop to make new friends and have some fun. My husband, Leon, had been dead for less than a year.…
Why I Love to Dance
Dancing is my passion, my hobby. Dancing is an integral part of my life. It does more for me than any medicine, treatment or…
From the Office to the Outback – Desert Change
If you would have told me a month ago, I’d be moving to the Outback to live and work, I never would have believed you. But here I am, booking a one-way ticket to Alice Springs, packing up my corporate life and preparing to go bush. While I reserve my accommodation, a local hostel in Alice