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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is the managing editor of JNS.

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Stay-at-Home Front
Carin M. SmilkApril 3, 2020
Day 15: Theater of the absurd
The oblong sleds in the garage glared at me, the plastic snow-brick builders sulked in their corner.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 2, 2020
Day 14: Remoting in place
There are two camps sheltering in place around the country (and world) right now: those at home with kids and those without.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 1, 2020
Day 13: No laughing matter
The next thing I knew, I was lying on my back in the middle of Eighth and Broadway.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 31, 2020
Day 12: Hair today, hair tomorrow
One more thing on hold that no one could have foreseen just two-and-half weeks ago.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 30, 2020
Day 11: Like ghost town out there
I don a white winter cap and semi-cat-eye pink plastic sunglasses. They might offer some protection.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 27, 2020
Day 10: Save money and give generously
Real hardships? Real needs? There are so many right now … and always have been.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 26, 2020
Day Nine: ‘To all who hold fast to it’
There are two relevant definitions: “to remain tightly secured” and “to continue to believe in or adhere to an idea or principle.”
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 25, 2020
Day Eight: Chasing nightmares
I saw a shadow from a distance. And I was barefoot, for some reason, yet still running pretty fast.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 24, 2020
Day Seven: Banking on the beer distributor
I noticed a sign on the door that said “drive-through service only.”
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 23, 2020
Day Six: You burnt!
I was making dinner (no, reheating dinner), when I accidentally grasped a baking sheet I didn’t realize was already hot.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 20, 2020
Day Five: Bring in the light
As the saying goes, it’s not the Jews who have kept Shabbat. It’s Shabbat that has kept the Jews.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 19, 2020
Day Four: ‘There was a whiff on the wind’
Does any remember how to deconstruct poetry?
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 18, 2020
Day Three: $20 of groceries, 40 days of words and maybe an ark
Why do I feel like a graduate student all over again?
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 17, 2020
Day Two: ‘Adrian axed apples accidentally in Arizona’
My first home-schooling lesson went well—at least, after my two elementary-schoolers insisted I was wrong, completely wrong.
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Carin M. SmilkMarch 16, 2020
Day One: Bored games and a shot of whisky
Stressors also cause positivity. People do rise to the occasion; we’re all in the same boat. That salves my Jewish soul.
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