by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Redux of “Vidui in Honor of My Mother, My Husband’s Closed Starbucks Store, and Our Aching World.” (If you are a subscriber who read the original post, please feel free to ignore!)Dear Lovely People Who Have Asked Me to Share What I Read Aloud on Yom...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Sep 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
TLDR: Live, change, breathe. And maybe dance.Dear Friends,It’s an introspective time of year. And because I’m a sharer, I’m sharing some of my introspecting out loud here with you. Introspecting in four parts, with subheads, if you will.If you’re the kind of human who...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is all there is. And sometimes, this is sh*t. (Trigger alert: no positive pablum found here.)Dear Friends in Fluxlandia,I’ve been sick this past week with severe cold-like symptoms but not-COVID. My dear Rabbi, who I now work with, has been more seriously laid...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Aug 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Both/and now.Today in lake, strength training in the apocalpyse edition.Dear Fluxlandish Friends,It’s been a while. I’d apologize for not writing, but I’ve been busy gathering my shards. Substack felt like an “extra,” and I didn’t feel like it was a choice. But I’m...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Apr 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Guest Essay by Sarah ButtenwieserSomewhere in the dazed early months of pandemic sequestration, I was taking one of a thousand walks around our neighborhood while listening to a podcast. These walks felt like outings. The scenery changed from the inside of our house...
by Debi Lewis | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Guest Essay by Debi LewisShe was sixteen and one of the best callers at the long, brown folding tables I oversaw. I was fluffed-up at nineteen with my new title of Supervisor, earned after a year of telephone fundraising for progressive, liberal causes. Our task that...
