Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • *Sandberg!* and other things I got from work this week.

    >clink!< Here’s to my first full out-of-the-home work week (ok, 80% out-of-the-home) in three years. Do I have observations? Yes, I have observations. Somewhere. Probably. Behind my droopy eyelids. Under the piles and piles of house mess I’m responsible for. Obviously, there are pros and cons of working from home and working from an office.…

  • 6 quickies from visiting for 3+ weeks in the States

    Just because. There are some things I must remember. So the ’90s are back. This I swear, I was thisclose to buying Doc Martins with my adult money. I don’t feel old. I feel great. I guess I’m so over it, I forgot to get a doughnut? Obviously my T-Mobile customer rep, who was digging to find out why I’m…

  • Warless, crimeless, murderless… trip highlights!

    Since a shit-ton of wrong went down this summer – in Israel and across the world – I’m going to dedicate this post to the happy, quirky, tiny moments of the trip I took with the kids to visit family in New York this month. On my first day in Ameeeerica, I have now seen…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Ginger Project

    Actually hung out with some pretty kick-ass gingers earlier this week (my grandmothers, in New York) but what I had in the end was a pretty kick-ass non-ginger trying it on instead. Week 35: Ginger Project Trying it on. 

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Silhouette

    Week 34: Silhouette Coney Island.

  • Nettles update: five months

    It would happen eventually, Nettles. Your first wartime. So we did that and then picked up when it seemed like the end was close (I think one of the faux cease fires was during our flight?). The America trip. You’ve been smiling your way through it all – new family members, passing strangers, my childhood…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Ice

    Week 33: Ice The ice is fake. The heat is real. 

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Quiet

    Fifty-Two Frames: Quiet

    So did you hear the one about the time a 15-year-old asked me about that pic I posted on instagram, and I told her excitedly how I had found my old Walkman in my childhood bedroom, and she looked at me with a sympathetic smile and asked me, ‘what is that?’ I hit play and…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: App Effects

    Oddly, I used less effects than usual on this one. Week 31: App Effects   Lost summer. 

  • Welcome to the wartime TMI challenge

    It turns out, when you’re reading everything with a grain of salt, you end up absorbing some pretty bad-tasting discomfort.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Negative Space

    ‘Negative space’ – what a loaded term. Luckily in photography it’s an awesome concept. Unluckily in everyday life right now, didn’t have a of time to explore it. Went with the first idea that came to mind. Week 30: Negative Space Seeking: a partner

  • Maybe there’s really no such thing as a ‘lone’ soldier

    One thing I know about Max Steinberg z’l is he was a Jewish citizen of the world who took action for our people. Another thing I know about Max Steinberg z’l is that his actions brought together Jews of all kinds, pouring out from big and bigger rooms to comfort his mourning parents and siblings.…

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