Empty Mirror has just posted my personal essay, The Seed
THE SEED http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/the-seed.html
Pogroms
My essay, UNDER HIS ROOF, was just published by EMPTY MIRROR
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My father and his sisters when they just got off the boat from Russia
Like spirits, they haunt me from this old photo–the suffering that had been through during a pogrom, hiding in a forest, making their way to […]
What wakes you from your sleep?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro/dream-on_b_3254954.html Somehow, on the Huffington Post, my essay was billed as having to do with Alzheimer’s. It’s actually a fun read and I hope that […]
The Way I Know It: In Memory of My Father
Read my essay on the Huffington Post. It’s set in Arverne, NY, and Far Rockaway, but the real setting is Russia, 1903. . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro/father_b_1588127.html