Month: May 2012

  • This is what you get at the end of a long week and a vodka beverage.

    We keep forgetting to stop for a second and take a breath and lean in real close and think, HOLY SHIT I’M EXACTLY WHERE I WANT TO BE. Seriously, how often do I take for granted where I am, what I’m doing, what’s possible for me? Continuously. Like a thought that struck me this week:…

  • Why we stay in Israel: a hint.

    For those wondering why I stay here… including myself… maybe this offers a hint. Because it ain’t the politics. Or the prices. The 10 Happiest Countries in the World For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. examined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report on life satisfaction in the developed world.…

  • The Tzur Hadassah contrast.

    I live in a beautiful nature park-slash-construction zone. Pretty sure that at any given time in the last year there are around a dozen construction sites within our town. The flagship of Tzur Hadassah construction would be the megatron community center/school district being built in the center, towards the valley. Har Kitron is good for a…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: New.

    Who wants to get caught up in a fresh whirlpool of crushed chick peas? Week 21: New Let’s take a dip.

  • Bebe takes a leek.

    I’m sorry about the joke. Also, I wore these overalls back in the ’80s when we called them overalls and also wore overalls. A friend of my mom’s bought them for me and here we are in 2012 reliving the best decade ever. Over alls. I’m sorry again.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Old.

    Week 20: Old “When I was your age, we hated the people with zeros in their phone numbers.”

  • Relationship Status: It’s Complicated with Jerusalem.

    Today’s Writing Gym was Jerusalem-themed for Yom Yerushalyim… Here’s my take on meeting up with an Old Flame… Oh, hi… long time no see! Yeah, I’m, uh, I’m doing ok. Actually, not living too far from here, just over the hills, 15 kilometers out… Oh, it’s lovely, yes. The weather is comparable, totally. I couldn’t…

  • New game: Are You Mom Enough?

    At least we can gain something from the silly attempt at provocation (I guess it worked actually) that TIME magazine gave us this week with its Are You Mom Enough? cover. Am I mom enough to breastfeed a grown boy on the cover of a national magazine? No. I am mom enough to give him…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Bathrooms.

    After spending a long week thinking up cooky ideas, I should have known at the last minute I could count on the Tmol Shilshom bathroom to offer up a cooky one of its own… Week 19: Bathrooms. “The Pee of Life.”

  • Year of me.

    Seeing as I’m a mother and there’s really no ‘me’ anymore, here’s what I’m thinking… As of a couple weeks ago, when Bebe essentially weaned herself, thereby letting my body free into the universe where no one depends on it directly for sustenance, whether in utero or by breast… it marks the first time in…

  • Oh, we’re nowhere near the end.

    In honor of this ‘writing exercise’ turning 8-years-old this week, I’m posting a quickie writing workout (rapid-write) I did today at my newest adventure, a 6-session Writing Gym. So I’ve been writing since I could write. Since writing was drawing. Since the drawings began accompanying the words. Since the words dropped the drawings and filled their own…

  • THE haircut.

    So this news is a month old… on the other hand, see how I ‘waited’ to post about Koala’s haircut until after Lag Ba’Omer? The haircut went really well. I was a little reserved about it because I know my child, and he’s the type that if he doesn’t know you, doesn’t want you touching…