• Today is a writing day...

    Today seems like a writing day. This week has been, well, in a word, LONG. On Sunday evening, I was notified that a White Supremacist and well known Anti-Semite was scheduled to speak on the campus of...

  • 2018 - The Year of "NOW"

    Stop me if you've heard this one: "I want candy now!" "Cause I want it!" "I said now!" Perhaps you may have guessed these quotes came from my children. You see, kids will often seek instant gratification....

  • L'Chi Lach - To a land that I will show you!!!

    I remember the first time I heard Debbie Friedman's "L'chi Lach." I was 13 and I was attending a youth group event at my synagogue, Tree of Life Congregation in Columbia, S.C. I am sure now that I was...

  • Yesterday - Yesteryear

    Before Batya and I decided to start "trying" to get pregnant (with Carlie our 1st born), one of my friends posed a very interesting question to me - "Erin, why would you want to bring children into this...