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            We had our yearly Women’s Seder at our synagogue recently (far in advance of Passover this year, because of scheduling issues), and the music was lovely, and I got a chan...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2024/03/23/the-process-of-grief/

            Tonight is the first night of Passover, and I’ve been thinking about how this Jewish holiday makes me feel – this weeklong commemoration of the escape from slavery to f...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2021/03/27/miriams-well/

            I’ve been thinking about the #MeToo movement a lot, especially in the shadow of the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement, which has led to both protests and intensive di...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2020/09/05/before-and-after-metoo/

  I’m supposed to go for a mammogram this month. I went for my baseline last year, and the doctor wants me to go every year now, despite recommendations to the contrary out in the world. I alm...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2015/05/09/why-dont-dogs-have-gynecologists/

              A few years ago, I walked into the kitchen and saw a tiny brown mouse eating from Cricket’s food bowl. Cricket had left half of her breakfast scattered on the floor ar...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/08/19/cricket-and-the-brown-mouse/

              Sticks was an awkwardly built, wiry haired white dog. She was about sixty pounds, with all of her weight in her sizeable trunk and nothing in her spindly legs – ergo h...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/07/08/the-story-of-sticks/

              Mom and I took Cricket to a puppy class at the local pet store when Cricket was three or four months old. I wanted Cricket to stop biting me; that was my most pressing g...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/07/01/crickets-first-training-class/

              Before I was born, my parents had a dog named Rachel. She was a stray they’d picked up along the way, a black dog of unspecific origin. She was old by the time I came ...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/06/24/a-dog-named-rachel/

                When Cricket sings, she sounds like she’s arguing her case before the court as she gurgles and growls and rolls her R’s and squeaks and skips along the notes. I b...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/06/17/crickets-vocalizations/

                When Cricket was six months old, it was time for her to go to the vet to get spayed. She’d had all of her shots and reached the required weight and the earlier we g...

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2012/06/11/cricket-gets-fixed/