Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Bebe update: four years
New to the Bebe show? Here’s what you missed. Four years ago I became a mom for the second time – to a quiet, sleepy, cuddly bebe. Nicknamed by her older brother before she was born, Bebe is also who made me mother to a daughter. I often feel that while I teach my firstborn…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Abstract
Week 14: Abstract Chipping Away As we slowly chip away at our Earth…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Levitation
This one was hard. You could say I was not equipped. Week 13: Levitation How you hangin’?
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Fifty-Two Frames: Straight out of Camera
Week 12: Straight out of Camera Stand out. Go far.
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Nettles update: twelve months
Nettles, We did it! We made it to one! You’re still a functioning human baby and I’m still a functioning mother of three! You’ve experienced much beyond your year. A busy home life! Job interviews! Two trips abroad! Two snows – make that three snows – make that a ton of snow between two countries!…
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Nothing to see here, just a little election therapy.
Me? I’m slow to anger. Usually. When bad things are on their way, I tend to peek around the corner to find the good somewhere. And then as I pass around the corner, it hits me like a ton of… Bibis winning an election on a platform of fear. Unlike me, usually, I was pretty…
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Another year, another Bibi, another election.
Surprise surprise, I am undecided and it is nearly midnight on the night before Israeli elections. Here, every vote actually counts. Elections are a big game, a day at the casino. You’re not necessarily voting for who you believe in at any given time – you’re weighing who may take the biggest slice, who has…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Ritual
Week 11: Ritual Daily Unlock A chance to give each other a quick squeeze.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Reflection
Week 10: Reflection Little Reflections Sometimes change takes lots of little reflections, here and there, once in a while.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Black and White
Week 9: Black and White Expand Horizons
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Nettles update: eleven months
It’s very possible you are the cutest thing ever to have existed. There’s nothing about your face that I don’t want to eat. There’s nothing about your laugh that I don’t want to make you keep laughing. In the last month, you’ve really gotten involved with the household chores. Or, as a parent would call…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Make a Statement
Week 8: Make a Statement Free Play Let’s stop genderizing fantasy.
Questions? Comments? Advice?