Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith
by Anita Diamant
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A collection of essays written by the author during her pre-novelist years as a columnist considers such themes as the nature of family, the relationship between parents and children, and embracing Judaism in today's culture.Tags
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Bored the mess out of me once I got a little less than half way through it. I had to skip a lot.
Bored the mess out of me once I got a little less than half way through it. I had to skip a lot.
Bored the mess out of me once I got a little less than half way through it. I had to skip a lot.
Bored the mess out of me once I got a little less than half way through it. I had to skip a lot.
A collection of newspaper columns broken up by theme. I particularly loved her essay called “Fireflies” on marriage.
“Our time is coldly impatient of death’s toll.”
“The fireflies of married love punctuate the dark with silent lights.”
“Married love is in the details — The purloined plums, the casual kiss on the way out the door, the midday phone call just to say hi, the arm wrapped around your shoulders through a winter’s night. It’s not exactly happily ever after, but it’s the only place I know to find fireflies in March.”
“Yahrzeit means ‘year’s time,’ and it refers to the anniversary of a loved one’s death.”
“Meetings transform me into a seething misanthrope with violent tendencies. I want to show more punch anyone who talks too much, even if I agree with what he’s saying.”
“Holidays celebrate the repetitive nature of time, it’s continuities, it’s cycles. In a nation of immigrants, where change, assimilation, and innovation are cornerstones of the culture, holiday traditions seem especially precious... Holidays are respites, giving us the chance to pause and reflect upon all of the days we didn’t count dear enough.” show less
“Our time is coldly impatient of death’s toll.”
“The fireflies of married love punctuate the dark with silent lights.”
“Married love is in the details — The purloined plums, the casual kiss on the way out the door, the midday phone call just to say hi, the arm wrapped around your shoulders through a winter’s night. It’s not exactly happily ever after, but it’s the only place I know to find fireflies in March.”
“Yahrzeit means ‘year’s time,’ and it refers to the anniversary of a loved one’s death.”
“Meetings transform me into a seething misanthrope with violent tendencies. I want to show more punch anyone who talks too much, even if I agree with what he’s saying.”
“Holidays celebrate the repetitive nature of time, it’s continuities, it’s cycles. In a nation of immigrants, where change, assimilation, and innovation are cornerstones of the culture, holiday traditions seem especially precious... Holidays are respites, giving us the chance to pause and reflect upon all of the days we didn’t count dear enough.” show less
her days as a columnist — essays @ everything. — Jewish Heritage
Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that reflected the shape and evolution of her life, as well as the trends of her generation. In the end, her musings about love and marriage, birth and death, nature versus nurture, politics and religion—and everything from female friendships to quitting smoking—have created a public diary of the progress of her life that resonated deeply with her readers.
Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that reflected the shape and evolution of her life, as well as the trends of her generation. In the end, her musings about love and marriage, birth and death, nature versus nurture, politics and religion—and everything from female friendships to quitting smoking—have created a public diary of the progress of her life that resonated deeply with her readers.
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Anita Diamant is the author of Saying Kaddish, Choosing a Jewish Life, The New Jewish Wedding, Living a Jewish Life, The New Jewish Baby Book, Bible Baby Names, and the bestselling novel, The Red Tent. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Anita Diamant is the author of the bestselling novel "The Red Tent" & several books on Judaism, including show more "Living a Jewish Life", "Choosing a Jewish Life", & "The New Jewish Baby Book". A journalist who has written for "Redbook", the "Boston Globe", the "Boston Phoenix", & other publications, she lives in Newtonville, Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) Anita Diamant was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 27, 1951. She received a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from Washington University in 1973 and a master's Degree in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1975. She worked as a freelance journalist for numerous years and wrote for such magazines and newspapers as the Boston Globe, New England Monthly, Self, Parenting, Parents, McCalls, and Ms. She also wrote about Jewish practice and the Jewish community for Reform Judaism magazine, Hadassah magazine, and jewishfamily.com. She eventually started writing guidebooks to Jewish life including The New Jewish Wedding; The New Jewish Baby Book; Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs and Values for Today's Families; and Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead and Mourn as a Jew. She also writes novels including The Red Tent; Good Harbor; The Last Days of Dogtown, Day after Night and The Boston Girl. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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