Posts by: becky

Around my hometown of Madison Wisconsin I sported a hefty backpack large enough to pack library books, a computer…and maybe a small child. I wore it mostly for its functional purposes, like picking up groceries or transporting my laptop to the café. But also—secretly—I wore it because I believed it made me look younger. People …

Two months before we left Madison, I found myself on the phone trapped in an infinite loop of button pressing, trying to secure health insurance for my time in Florida: “If you are a new patient interested in starting a health insurance plan, press one,” the recording said. “If you have existing health care coverage …

When I met my husband for the first time, I was not impressed. I guess I should clarify that. When I met him, I didn’t fall over backwards, with the wind knocked out of me in love. He was a nice guy, but according to my twenty two year old self he was not my …

Yesterday I was walking along the beach, alone enjoying all the new shells that the hurricane had brought in, when and a young man in his early twenties approached me and asked if I had a hammer. I thought this was a bit odd, but I smiled, then asked him what he needed it for. …

I watched my three year old twins run up and down the empty airport corridor, regretting that I arrived way too early. We were waiting in the airport in Madison, Wisconsin for my mother who had embarked on her own journey and was now returning from Israel. With not much else to do, we stopped …

I watched my three year old twins run up and down the empty airport corridor, regretting that I arrived way too early. We were waiting in the airport in Madison, Wisconsin for my mother who had embarked on her own journey and was now returning from Israel. With not much else to do, we stopped …

I stood in the crowded bar in Madison, Wisconsin, yelling over the din of one hundred slightly tipsy graduates of James Madison Memorial’s Class of 1990. Ji-Hun, a former classmate was in front of me, looking almost exactly the same as he did twenty years earlier. He knew me right away. We began our conversation …