Disengage

I’m writing this piece on behalf of my friend who would like this to serve as a public service announcement.
 I’m talking to you single girls out there (and I suppose myself), who intend on getting married through the shidduch dating system, and to engaged girls who are doubting their sanity.
 Engagement is not the blissful utopia [...]

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I Say…

I wrote this poem in response to a student approaching me about some issues she was having with friends…this poem basically takes her talking for hours on end, running around in circles, and condenses it into 4, 4 line stanzas.
I feel for her.
I say I’m not the hugging type
So if you don’t
It’s not because
You don’t [...]

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Driving Home a Point

I went to a wedding the other night. This is not about the wedding, but how I got there and the wedding is just the context as to why I was in a car in this particular case.
 
The wedding was a little distance away, about a 45 minutes drive from Brooklyn. I printed out [...]

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My Life: In Verse

I found some notes I took at a Literacy seminar over the summer.
 
The speaker had us quickly jot down where we found poetry in our lives.
 
This is what I wrote:
 
My hate the world days
Standing by a friends chupah
Insomniac night wishing I could fall asleep
The things I do to procrastinate
The silent moments between friends
The awkwardness [...]

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In My Eyes and Heart

This post was spurred by “In My Life’s” post about not giving a guy a second date because she didn’t go for his looks.
 
My friends are beautiful.
 
Every single one them.
 
Statistically it’s a little improbable unless I make it a point to only make friends with pretty people. I’m not THAT shallow…so how do [...]

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One Good Turn

My friends calls me today; I’m just going to relate the conversation.
Me: Hey, what’s up?
Friend: I am very mad at you?
Me: Me? What did I do?
Friend: I read your post, and decided that I wanted to learn, and you know what, I’m surrounded by papers now!
Me: I’m so glad I inspired you to do something [...]

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Normal is…

I was speaking to my friend, and I can’t remember the course of the conversation, but I ended up mentioning something I had heard on John Schaefer’s “New Sounds” podcast. It was at this point that my friend told me that I needed new pastimes, normal ones. No podcasts, no blogging, mo more drawing on [...]

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