NOVELS
MEMOIR
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Return from Exile (A Jewish Woman's Journey Home)
A spiritual memoir depicting the journey to our true home and deepest selves. The book starts and is rooted in the Hasidic world of Borough Park Brooklyn during the forties. We watch Rivkah absorb the beauty and wisdom of the world. We meet the characters who live and breathe there, including intense, demanding Rabbis with whom Rivkah engages deeply, always craving to taste the truth for herself. We also meet her stalwart grandmother, mystical grandfather and parents who do not fit in. Rivkah struggles with questions and conflicts that arise and is finally forced to leave and wander in many other worlds. The book is a tapestry of joy, pain and discovery as Rivkah learns to walk in the footsteps that lead her out of exile, able to embrace both her origins and the life she is living now. "Your book inspired me to sit more, pray more, write and study more. It is about the process of redemption for all of us." Alana |
.Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing)
Book of Zen Moments Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing) is a personal journey through almost forty years of Zen practice in New York with a Japanese Zen Master. Filled with often humorous personal encounters with not only Zen Masters, but other students, friends and family, we watch a deluded Zen student’s struggle for awareness and compassion. As she engages this simple, but rigorous Zen practice, we see her wonder, folly confusion, delusions, victories and defeats. We also watch her unnerving ability to keep going and determination to endure. Simple and direct, the book is filled with both the longing for authentic living and the potholes we all fall into and hopefully climb out of again. The treasures and gifts of this beautiful practice are included, along with the inevitable dangers that must be worked through
.Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing)
Book of Zen Moments Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing) is a personal journey through almost forty years of Zen practice in New York with a Japanese Zen Master. Filled with often humorous personal encounters with not only Zen Masters, but other students, friends and family, we watch a deluded Zen student’s struggle for awareness and compassion. As she engages this simple, but rigorous Zen practice, we see her wonder, folly confusion, delusions, victories and defeats. We also watch her unnerving ability to keep going and determination to endure. Simple and direct, the book is filled with both the longing for authentic living and the potholes we all fall into and hopefully climb out of again. The treasures and gifts of this beautiful practice are included, along with the inevitable dangers that must be worked through
MEMOIR
Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing)
The Diary of A Zen Mamma
SHORT STORIES
Circles New Millenium (Honorable Mention)
Far Music, Threepenny Review
Eye of The Needle Louisville Review
Silent Night, Best College Short Stories, Random House.
AWARDS
Elizabeth Janeway Award for Fiction
EDUCATION
Barnard College, Honors in Writing
NYU, Master's Programs in Playwriting
Adelphi University Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
Zen Studies Society, Rinzai Zen, Practice there over forty five years.
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