Author Archives: hadassahalderson

On Saturday I was at the library early.  Too early, in fact.  First Mom and I had to leave to go eat breakfast.  Then I came by, and the library was open but the room where we were selling the books was closed.  However, one of the staff was kind enough to let me intoContinue reading “Wichita Public Library Book Sales”

I have stuffed 31 or so envelopes of the letters I ran off yesterday to send to the different libraries of Kansas advertising my book.  This was only into about 2 or 3 pages into my list of names, but it included all of the copies of the letter I ran off.  Then I sentContinue reading “The Business of Writing Continues”

Today has been a day in which I spent doing the necessary but least interesting part of being a writing: the business part. I got up early.  Mom and I went to Panera Bread and ate there.  Then we went to the Nature Center.  Mom was kind enough to buy me two books: The EvolutionContinue reading “The Business of Writing”

I finished reading Russian Fairy Tales: A Collection of Muscovite Folktales this last week. It was not that long, but I had troubles concentrating. I also went to a movie today… I started thinking about the Holocaust, and about the Swedish Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 Jews from the Holocaust before being captured by theContinue reading “Recalling Grandma W.”

Yesterday I typed two pieces, one of which I wrote Sunday (“The Magic of Elena the Beautiful”) and the other which I wrote and typed up on Monday, “The Woman Who Loved David.”  It is a story about a fictive woman plausibly could have existed but whom we had no evidence did exist. Her feelingsContinue reading “A Modern Midrash on David”

I am very proud of myself for what may seem a middling accomplishment: I wrote two stories between yesterday and today. For yesterday I wrote out a story “The Magic of Elena the Beautiful” longhand. I typed it up this morning and got 10 pages. Then this evening, I wrote out another story “The WomanContinue reading “To Write or Not to Write”

I have often thought that there ought to be two days on our calendar, and two days everyone knows like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day: Grandparent’s Day and Children’s Day. They have such days in Europe, and I will dwell on the first. I feel like our culture today is nihilistic in that it isContinue reading “Grandparents’ Day”

I am one of those creatures that experienced workaholics look down on: I am a late sleeper. In Biblical times, The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Proverbs 22:13 I do have an excuse, inadequate though it is. I spoke to my doctor yesterday, and thoughContinue reading “The Need to Rest”

I just wanted to comment on yesterday’s election.  I am glad that for once I bothered research the primaries before voting—that is what everyone ought to do.  Of course, I could not, on such short notice do all the research in local news before voting.  I am ashamed I do not at least read theContinue reading “Kansas Primaries 2022”

I thought of that old friend of mine whom I have not visited in a while. Perhaps some weekend before Tish B’Av I shall read her diary along with Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal; Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Live in a Concentration Camp; The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of NonnaContinue reading “Reading Anne Frank”