I was tagged by  Ella (the enchanting, the talented, the hilarious, and the modest) Schwartz  in the My Writing Process Blog Hop, so here a...

The Girls Heart Books blog tour for Ride of Your Life has begun! Even though it's not my most recent book, I decided to do a blog tour ...

This is my favorite Passover story, one about a real miracle that happened in my mother's family when she was just a girl. I hope you l...

If you have an idea for a character but don't know what to do with it, here are three easy steps that will help you create a great story...

It will be 30 years this May since the Six Flags Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire that killed eight teenagers. I started writing my YA ro...

Purim is my favorite holiday. I love the costumes, reading the story of how Esther and Mordechai saved the Jewish people, the joy and n...

If you are one of my siblings or one of my cousins on my mother’s side, and I say that I’m about to tell you the story of Savtah Rivka, the...

Picture a young woman nineteen years old standing on the deck of a ship, sometime about 1900. She is on a journey to a land both strange an...

YouTube science channel Veritasium made a video that shows that buying Facebook ads based on likes doesn't work.  Click farms will like...

This video has been making the rounds on Facebook, and what it says is true: most of the likes on Facebook pages are fake. But this doesn...

Here's a screen grab from my Verizon account. Notice something a little...odd? 

There’s an odd similarity between the earliest story told about the great-grandmother I’m named after and the earliest story my parents use...