Written for Congregation Darchei Noam
I am reminded of my mother sitting in a yellow armchair, knitting. The arms of the chair were torn by our cat, who claimed it in our absence with her sharp nails.

A new story written for the Salon series
I was always fascinated with places where the doors were never locked and the lights never turned off. Like a 24-hour dinner on the edge of some Midwestern city, where truck drivers stop to have coffee, a bowl of chili or flirt with a waitress. 

Reviewed by Connie T. Braun for Canadian Book Review Annual
For Rabbi Tina Grimberg, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States at age 15 and later moved to Toronto, feeling “out of line” was not the experience of living in a new place, but rather of living in her former country, where families lived in small rooms and freedom of thought was not permitted.