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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is managing editor of the U.S. bureau at JNS, with extensive experience in writing, content editing, copy editing and newsroom management. She has worked in newspaper and communications offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore; freelanced for more than 25 years; and contributed to magazines and books. She has won more than three dozen individual and team journalism awards on the U.S. state and national levels.

Every night at around midnight, I crack the storm door open and listen. Listen to nothing.
It’s like an addiction. There are so many places to see, so many cities and towns that still reel from that war.
It would have been nice to take my children somewhere new and educational.
I wish I didn’t have to mark Passover in the number of eggs cracked, onions sliced or chicken made.
Something tells me, the cynic, that they will be back again to make repairs one day.
Next year, we were supposed to be in Jerusalem. If that were so, then why weren’t we there?
When you go to bed at 4, what time do you wake? I mean, at that point, you might as well roll right into the next day.
See what kids can do when they’re bored?