Works
Stalking Truth
What happens when someone tells you something about yourself that you don't want to believe? Helena tries to discover the truth about herself.
Grappling with Edges
Facing the end of her mother's life, a mother who carries sharp, broken edges formed by survival of the Holocaust, Helena wonders about the harshness and the gifts of life. How do we hold the beauty and the pain?
As Bombs Fall on a Maternity Hospital in Ukraine
During the pandemic, my daughter and too-young-to-be-vaccinated granddaughter headed from Alaska to Montana to support a friend heading into childbirth alone. My worry about Covid felt like a pesky mosquito compared to what the mothers and children endured that day in Ukraine.