Bruria Lindenberg Cooperman

author  •  sculptor  •  peripatetic  • rebel bubbie

For This
I Survived?

CHILDREN OF SURVIVORS
BEYOND THE TRAUMA

Bruria Lindenberg Cooperman

author  •  sculptor  •  peripatetic  • rebel bubbie

For This
I Survived?

CHILDREN OF SURVIVORS
BEYOND THE TRAUMA

What are the chances?!?

I got married, for the first time, at the age of 46.  I had no children so when this opportunity came along, I grabbed it. The marriage package included three children. The two oldest were out of the house, the teenager was home. The rest of the menagerie included two...

OY VEY:  My Life in Three Acts 

ACT ONE:  ANGUISH ACT TWO:  NEGOTIATING THE DIVIDES ACT THREE:  TRYING TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER 02 July 2013 PROLOGUE My father had collapsed and was hooked up to machines in the ICU; my mother had fallen and broken her hip. That’s when she told me...

JAPAN DIARIES: 1986-1992

INTRODUCTION She was no more than 4 foot 11, a Japanese version of every stereotype we have seen of an Asian woman — slightly stooped, bowlegged, shuffling along, holding her wicker basket, dressed casually for an afternoon of grocery shopping.  Then I...