BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today. The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol. The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.

TIL that staedtler markers are not waterfast. I traced the #ColorTheOmer page onto watercolor paper via window. Moving away from gesso. It's sandy and the page still ripples up from the water.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE! We could not possibly be more excited to announce this: Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman's book Life Lessons from Recently Dead Rabbis: Hassidut for the People is NOW AVAILABLE! yourbayit.org/lifelessons/

We have 2 fantastic PhD scholarship opportunities for students passionate about improving the health of people with intellectual disability. Find out more at our website 3dn.unsw.edu.au/news/two-excit…

Tonight my dvar/conversation starter will just be reading the Korach pages from #LLRDR by Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman so I can show them the book. Smart? Or lazy? Or laying the foundation for a future book club/Torah study? Hmm? Shabbat shalom, all. Especially my Bayit: Building Jewish publishers!

Always happy to be in such good company.

New on Builders Blog from Shari Salzhauer Berkowitz: yourbayit.org/covering-my-he… "...If a man’s kippah is an expression of humility before God and a woman’s doily is an expression of married modesty, where does that leave me?

You'd be surprised how much mental bandwidth I've given to this topic and for how long...but it's one piece of a much bigger puzzle. I think of the photo on Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg book cover, Surprised by God, or the kippah on Rabbi Rachel Barenblat keppie. But somehow not fitting on my head.

Remember to add to speech science class.

So many missed opportunities to check mental health. How will you work it into your clinical practice?

Time to get ready to #ColorTheOmer again. Put the book in your mishloach manot baskets, give them as host gifts, or afikomen gifts. Add some markers or colored pencils. Elevate your Omer count. amazon.com/Color-Omer-day…

My art will be in this book and I am freaking out. I feel very on a limb. Buy the book tho. kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

If you want something new to help you experience the Days of Awe, try this. From the publishers of #ColorTheOmer and Hassidut from Recently Dead Rabbis and many other wonderful publications, Bayit.

ICYMI or if you are on the fence: less than $1400 to go on this: A way to get into High Holiday mode if you prefer visual arts rather than words. Makes a great host/hostess gift if you are invited to Break Fast. kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

Can you spot my work? Order the book here. kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

We need to design our bike infrastructure for all ages & abilities, including & especially older folks on recumbent bikes, hauling a dog trailer. 🚲 ❤️