Month: October 2012

  • Dressupween.

    I loved dress up as a kid. I love it now. Long live dress up! In honor of my homesickness this week and canceled Halloween across New Jersey, we played dress up after gan today. Butterflies, princesses, and duck-faced farmers included. Fairies first. His combo… Shoes are the best part anyway. He particularly enjoyed becoming…

  • By the power of Kanye… (Nike Night Run 2012)

    So I’ve run full circle; last year, at this time, my two colleagues were raving about how awesome the Nike Night Run in Tel Aviv was. I was curious and jealous and looking for a personal fitness program so I started running. The first 10k I could do was the Jerusalem Night Run. Then I…

  • Highway coffee love happiness.

    It suddenly dawned on me, walking along the highway outside Tzur Hadassah for the 3907584376th time… …our highway signs advertise coffee as the pit stop attraction. Maybe they did in the US too, but the icons here look like a hafuch (cappuccino). I dunno why, I just love it.

  • Hurricane Sandy. Gaza rockets. It’s raining, and it’s tragic.

    Being a New Yorker outside of New York when disaster strikes is hard. I think we have some sort of mutated DNA that makes us deal with crap in a different way. A New York way. Like Hurricane Irene last year, only yeah, this time New York skepticism didn’t win out. Obviously, this is a…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Curves

    Reunited with an old recreation, up in Haifa this week. The beckoning, sensual nature of the hookah’s shape always seemed to directly reflected the possibilities it offered. Week 43: Curves “A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.” – old school film director Wesley Ruggles

  • Little Midrash, Lizrael style.

    “Do you know what this week’s parsha is? Lech Lecha. Basically… Avraham Avinu, do you know who that is? No? So… he was the first Jew. He had the first brit milah. Do you know what that is? Well. You had one… All yehudim with a penis have one. So all boys who are yehudim…

  • Koala update: Three and a half years.

    Dropping off my brother at his giyus this week did a funny thing, Koala. It made me realize how very big you are. And how very small. And how those two qualities will constantly be true, and constantly conflict, and constantly pose a challenge for me, and constantly fill me with love. I do hope…

  • Women’s rites.

    It stresses me to my inner core to take out the garbage. The communal bins are at the end of the block, and I have to pull and pray the thin orange membrane containing three days of garbage doesn’t tear and turn the situation into an episode of Sitcom Liz. This morning, after boker tov-ing…

  • Not so fast: Tzur Hadassah mikvah update

    About a month ago, we took a walk to where the currently-malfunctioning mikvah stands in Tzur Hadassah. Apparently, ‘they’ have found donors/money to get it functional, (I understand the malfunction is a plumbing issue) and it seems the rest of the area is getting prepped as well. The road leading to it from next to…

  • Ready to be president, Louis CK?

    Maybe it’s the wine I’m buzzed on, maybe it’s the political fatigue, it’s really the latter, I’ve actually given this thought. But I didn’t vote for Obama in this election. I didn’t vote for Romney, either. I voted for you, Louis CK. Yes, you. Observationalist extraordinaire. Parenting comic relief to the newly initiated. The guy…

  • There goes the Lone Soldier.

    There goes the Lone Soldier. Today I saw my brother off to his shlav bet compulsory 6-month IDF service. A bit anticlimactic as far as the mothers of 18-year-olds go. Actually, some were in various uniforms themselves. Maybe they’ve done it before. Maybe they’ve known this day would come for 18 years. There weren’t very…

  • Something I learned in class last night.

    Rapid writing exercise. We couldn’t take the pen off the paper until she told us too.  The first time I put on shoes opened the fridge hit a ball went to the park by myself wore a watch hung a shirt did my laundry spoke used a computer played a video game used a pen…