by Carla Naumburg | Nov 5, 2015 | Kveller.com, Writing
In the spring of 2001, I walked into a small jewelry store in the old town of Albuquerque. It was hot and bright out, and the sunlight streaming through the windows highlighted the dust floating through the air as though it was glitter. I stood for a moment and...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 30, 2015 | Ready Set Breathe
This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Ready, Set, Breathe: Practicing Mindfulness With Your Children for Fewer Meltdowns and a More Peaceful Family (New Harbinger, 2015). Calming Down As I have mentioned before, there is no such thing as crisis meditation. We...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 29, 2015 | Kveller.com, Writing
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore my daughters’ Jewish Day School. The teachers are amazing, I love the other families, and my girls are learning everything from engineering to Israeli dance. There’s just one problem. They’re also learning Hebrew. I mean, really...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 22, 2015 | Kveller.com, Writing
It’s time to tackle a big one for the Jewish Mother Project: keeping kosher. I didn’t grow up kosher—pork chops were in heavy rotation at our dinner table and cheeseburgers were my favorite restaurant meal. My husband’s parents didn’t keep a kosher kitchen either, but...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 16, 2015 | Kveller.com
When I started the Jewish Mother Project, my goal was to try something new each week and then write about my experience. This week, I’m taking a brief departure from that plan to share a different kind of story. This isn’t about a holiday or ritual I’ve started...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 10, 2015 | Seleni
Mindfulness is a major buzzword these days, representing a state of living in the moment that many of us aspire to even as we berate ourselves for spacing out, forgetting something, or wasting time on our phones. We tend to think of mindfulness as a difficult pursuit...
