Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • Those 3 dreaded words: work life balance

    How is it natural to go from a 6-month-old clawing at your neck while laughing in your face all day, and then at 5pm switching to wearing suitable Waldorf Astoria clothing, packing business cards into your clutch and smiling like you haven’t been waking up every two hours for the last few nights? It’s not.…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Macro

    This was a learning week. Learned something new about my camera. I took a LOT of shots of a LOT of different subjects and I didn’t want to go with another flower or fruit… Took way better shots than this but this is what I felt in the end. BUT I learned so much about…

  • Bebe update: three and a half years

    And like that, you were three. Bigger, a little bolder, a lot brighter. This hasn’t been the easiest half a year for you Bebe; gaining a little sibling is wonderful as you know, but also kind of challenging, as you know… right? Your love and warmth and all-encompassing care for your baby sister has been…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Pairs

    Week 40: Pairs “Here’s my two cents…”

  • Women, workplace, wages, BEYONCÉ.

    Something I’m learning: getting ‘older’ professionally exposes me to considering more often the ‘women in professional situations’ issues. Here are a few things I’m thinking about today: When Women Manage Men Who Don’t Respect Women Kinda surprised this went on that far; then again, I’m also totally not surprised. Her line of thinking seems familiar…

  • What do Palestinians think this month? A public opinion poll

    A friend of mine at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Jerusalem sent me these findings of a new Palestinian public opinion poll (conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, September 25-27, 2014). Coming a month after the end of the latest Gaza war, and a couple…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: From where I stand

    So erev Rosh Hashana the most perfect dog follows me home… Week 39: From Where I Stand From where I stand, I am needed. 

  • Video marketing: so you *can* teach an old man new tricks

    I watched a lot of videos tonight. And they all made me happy. But none so happy as this: Ex-President of Israel (and ex-every other job) Shimon Peres goes job hunting. I’m extra happy there are subtitles so you can enjoy if you’re not from around here.

  • Nettles update: six months

    At the beginning of this month, on the way back from our visit to the States, while your sister slept and her breakfast cooled off on her tray, I watched you watch me as you stuck your hand out, every so slowly, inching, inching towards it. A few days ago you saw your pacifier had been…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Collaboration

    Week 38: Collaboration It can be just as lonely… and unifying… in the same exact moment.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Framed

    Week 37: Framed Gotchya.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Love

    Week 36: Love Little lovely limbs.   

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