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Sep 12, 2025, 6:16 PM

Overcoming Sinat Chinam: An Elul Reflection

There are far too many forms of bias to which people, in general, subscribe. Some of these preconceptions are based on affinity, i.e., shared attributes, on real and attributed middot, on relative comeliness, on conformity, on shared perspectives, on...

Sep 7, 2025, 9:28 AM

The Quiet Birthed by Elul’s Introspection

Like countless folks, I have often associated the month of Elul with increased hustle and bustle. After all, this interval is when children return to school, yeshivot fill up after summer break, and prayers of supplication are added to...

Aug 27, 2025, 2:18 PM

Suburban Snacks and Other Uses of Neighborhood Plants

In the 1960s, no one fretted over making tea, carbonated beverages, or salads from, respectively, sassafras twigs, roots, and leaves. As well, we gathered and soaked acorns and fashioned them into flour for pancakes. As per the fruit of brambles,...

Aug 26, 2025, 12:19 AM

From Guns to Chicken Wings

When I began this blog a few years ago, I promised to write about senior-sorts-of-things. Not surprisingly, whereas health and fiduciary matters are often rubricked as concerns belonging to “ancient” folks, it turns out that all kinds of goings-on...

Aug 21, 2025, 11:12 PM

Aliyah Anniversary: Part Two

After living here for a short span, my family began to have increasing success with cultural integration. Computer Cowboy operated, for more than half of a dozen years, for the corporation that helped to fund our move. Thereafter, he was...

Aug 20, 2025, 9:13 PM

Aliyah Anniversary: Part One

BH, recently, my family merited to celebrate that twenty years have passed since the date that we made aliyah. Those decades melted away rapidly. Through the guise of my husband’s, Computer Cowboy’s, career, Hashem brought us to Israel. The international...

Aug 1, 2025, 5:53 PM

Essentially, we cannot know, establish, or control many things. Both as individuals and as a collective, it remains factual that whereas we can manage our reactions to events, we are not in command of circumstances’ outcomes. Per the personal realm,...

Jul 29, 2025, 12:24 AM

The Way of Flowers

“Daily, ask yourself which herbs you should take. You need to tonify. You’ve just forgotten to use your therapeutic arts.” I sighed and scowled. While no grimace would quiet her advice, my scrunched face, momentarily, made me feel powerful. I maintained...

Jul 25, 2025, 12:04 AM

From Complications of Multiple Sclerosis to Revealed Miracles

Having written about my mother’s death, I thought I’d also write about my father’s.My father died when he was sixty-five. He had been intubated and on bedrest since he was fifty. He had been in and out of hospitals...

Jul 24, 2025, 4:41 PM

A House, A Car, and A Chicken

This narrative begins outside of Bukovina, Romania, and ends, where my husband, my children and I are blessed to live, that is, in Jerusalem. You see, a few days ago, I got up from sitting shiva for my mom. My...

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About Me

KJ Hannah Greenberg has been playing with words for an awfully long time. Initially a rhetoric professor and a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar, she shed her academic laurels to romp around with a prickle of imaginary hedgehogs. Thereafter, her writing has been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals.