![]() To find someone who is friend material, so to speak, is delightful.” “You never know when someone is going to impact your life,” said Wolff about the gym friend essay. One is a poem and one a short essay about the transformation of a casual “gym friend” into a “real friend.” Two of her latest pieces appear in “Just Us Girls,” the latest title from the well-known “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series. In addition to writing, Wolff was a public school teacher and continues to practice and teach yoga. Her blog, “Ferida’s Backyard,” offers observations about the natural world that tend to be overlooked in people’s harried lives. From her start news writing for local papers, including the Jewish Community Voice in the mid-1980s, she migrated to personal essays and fiction. ![]() “I can’t even say I love writing, it’s just such a part of me,” said Wolff, a Brooklyn native who honed her craft participating in an amateur writers’ workshop in Medford in the late 1970s. Seventeen children’s books, three adult books, and hundreds of published stories later, the Cherry Hill writer continues to compose essays and fiction based on her life experiences that resonate with readers. ![]() Since age seven, when she could coherently put her thoughts on paper, Ferida Wolff has defined herself by her words. ![]()
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