The author reminisces about death and mortality and how it shapes the person one becomes.

Language and what it means? What is lost even in the best of translations? There are some of the questions that the author ponders over. along with how language and cultures are much more closely related than they actually seem to be.

The author rediscovers patience and the art of embracing cracks, but not without the serendipitious help from a 4 year old!

Lena Gemmer writes about facing the unaccommodating public school's educational system in her childhood, which is futile for students with learning diabilities.

The author traverses the chasm between Jewish or Christian and the unknown.

The author weaves a telling tale out of a a complex fusion of honey, mountains, lungs, honeycombs, childhood memories and falling stars.

The author writes of a night's experience replete with classical music, a cup of chai and nostalgia.

The author, along with her family, go for a snowboarding post-quarantine vacation and she discovers, among other things, layers of meaning in Frost's poem.

The author and her daughter relate to their roots via the ashtonishing route of blueberries and how it represents the author's grandmother.