Tales from the Tracks

I’ve been sitting here all night, trying to decide what I wanted to write about, but my brain has been complete mush since the incident that happened this afternoon.
Calling it an “incident” hardly does it justice. What happened this afternoon could easily be ranked as the single worst thing that has occurred in my 25 [...]

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Happy Passover to all my fellow Jews out there! I wasn’t aware of it being Passover until my grandmother asked if I was observing the holiday. (I responded smoothly as ever with, “What holiday?”) In my defense, I am a self-proclaimed agnostic whose true Judaism boils down to a dark head of hair and a [...]

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When I had my son in early 2006, I was working for a boutique consulting firm in Manhattan. Months before his birth, my boss called me into his office to discuss maternity benefits.
“The firm has decided,” he said proudly, “to offer you two weeks paid maternity leave.”
I sat there quietly, a little surprised, and avoiding [...]

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