I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
There’s something almost adolescent about Whitman’s paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn’t get reviewed in any major outlets.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
The Bible – it’s sort of the other person in the room. There’s this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
Biblical names are hot again.
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.