Lives Well Lived: I Remember Baubie and Zadie

A Resource for English and ESL Teachers: Lives Well Lived

“May your nachas, your happiness, live in each of us, and may we give with open hand, open heart, and magnanimous spirit to all people everywhere.”

Lives Well-Lived: I Remember Baubie and Zadie is a love story that takes the reader from the schtetles (villages) of Russia to America, “the Land of the Free”, at the turn of the 20th century. It’s a chronicle of the dying art of living life with honesty, humor, commitment and unconditional love, with an emphasis is on heroes, positive role models, family values, and holding each other in the highest esteem. This is a story that emanates warmth, hope, and inspiration, and provides many marvelous examples of “lives well lived”. It is an immigrant’s journey.

A Reflection on Writing Lives Well-Lived: I Remember Baubie and Zadie

“If my remembering stories of Baubie and Zadie’ gifts, stimulates your remembering, I’m glad and the purpose of my writing this book is fulfilled. Each of us has an opportunity to identify those “Angels in human clothing” and thank them by embodying unconditional love and passing it on.