Novelist Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After, described the volume as �a gathering of generous souls willing to speak about what matters to them in a way that makes it matter to us.� Author Sara Davidson hailed the �honest, raw, close-to-the-bone and often humorous stories.� In addition to births, deaths, weddings, and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, these transitions include: the daughter of an Alzheimer�s victim facing the moment her mother no longer recognizes her, a father accepting and learning from his son�s choice to live as a strictly Orthodox Jew, a young man embracing his gay identity, an unconfident woman discovering her true strength at age forty.

In the words of Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso: �These moving essays open a window into the special moments of their authors� lives.� These are moments you don�t want to miss.