Rituals — Intended and Accidental

The Jewish New Year prompts the annual introspection: how to love our imperfect selves?

Imperfect homemade challah…tastes about like it looks

Last year at this time, we were taking steps to re-emerge from the pandemic. For me, that meant sending my kids back to in-person high school and college.

On the eve of that transition, we sat around our dining room table and I said…