YA Eco Mysteries, Memoirs, Novels & Travel
29 September 2013
Native Bees and Pollinator Houses
29/09/13 17:23 Filed in: Environment
Making a Pollinator House at Sims EcoScape
On a perfect autumn day, Boris and I joined a group of conservationists gathered at the Sims EcoScape to help build a pollinator house. We didn’t know much about pollinator houses and hadn’t visited the EcoScape, but we trusted Michele Reynolds, on a mission to show others how to put native plants back into their gardens and parks, and Arnold Rutkis, who designs and installs EcoScapes for the Southern Environmental Center in Birmingham. Besides, what could be nicer than chatting with nature lovers, renewing old friendships, making new ones, sipping delightfully fresh gazpacho, and dipping into whole snacks and sweets on a shaded patio. Read More...
On a perfect autumn day, Boris and I joined a group of conservationists gathered at the Sims EcoScape to help build a pollinator house. We didn’t know much about pollinator houses and hadn’t visited the EcoScape, but we trusted Michele Reynolds, on a mission to show others how to put native plants back into their gardens and parks, and Arnold Rutkis, who designs and installs EcoScapes for the Southern Environmental Center in Birmingham. Besides, what could be nicer than chatting with nature lovers, renewing old friendships, making new ones, sipping delightfully fresh gazpacho, and dipping into whole snacks and sweets on a shaded patio. Read More...
How to Handle a Torah
29/09/13 17:06 Filed in: Historical Novels
When a Torah Tumbles to the Ground
I came across this article in the Jewish Daily Forward, “When Torah’s Tumble to the Floor, What’s a Shul to Do?” It immediately triggered a connection to a similar incident in which Leah Rosen, a tragic character in my historical novel, causes the Torah to drop to the floor:
“Leah shoved her way through the throng, unaware of heavy heels crushing her toes or sharp elbows jabbing into her ribs. When she reached her father, she tried to seize the Torah from him. With a strangled exclamation Hershel twisted sharply away from her outstretched hands, lost his grip on the Torah, and fell to his knees.” Read More...
I came across this article in the Jewish Daily Forward, “When Torah’s Tumble to the Floor, What’s a Shul to Do?” It immediately triggered a connection to a similar incident in which Leah Rosen, a tragic character in my historical novel, causes the Torah to drop to the floor:
“Leah shoved her way through the throng, unaware of heavy heels crushing her toes or sharp elbows jabbing into her ribs. When she reached her father, she tried to seize the Torah from him. With a strangled exclamation Hershel twisted sharply away from her outstretched hands, lost his grip on the Torah, and fell to his knees.” Read More...