I started baking Parshah themed desserts with my friend over Zoom. We talk about the Parshah first, then decide what to make. This week we chose small cups of ice cream to remind us of the pachim ketanim, the little things Yaakov went back for. That idea of “small things matter” stayed with me when I checked my bank account and saw I was in overdraft. As a tutor, a babysitter, and a home baker, I was shocked. I earn a steady salary, Baruch Hashem, and I barely spend, so the number on the...

One Tuesday evening, my younger brother asked me to go biking with him. I had not been on a bike for two or three years. We started out,...

This week I sat down with some of my family to do a puzzle. At first, it was hard. We could not find which pieces fit, and it felt like...