Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Famous Quote

    Week 43: Famous Quote Break on through to the other side…

  • Koala update: Four and a half years

    At some point in the last six months, I stopped living with a little kid and started sharing a home with a boy. The first suspicion that our household had undergone some sort of transition was after a few sporadic mornings when I had the opportunity to creep into your room as the sun came…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Cityscape

    I don’t have a lot of access to cities. Shocking, I know. And even though last week I found myself in four different municipalities, I couldn’t get my act together to get a good cityscape. So Tzur Hadassah’s other half, Har Kitron, will have to do. Week 42: Cityscape A drop of civilization hidden in…

  • My kids are awesome sleepers

    By awesome, I mean, creative. Not that they always sleep through their nightmares and don’t come in at 2:30 am and tell us about the monsters and lions and bears and I think once there was the ‘blue Spider-man’. Exhibit A: They very often manage synchronized sleeping. Exhibit B: In all fairness, the bed might…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Landscape

    A little dark and depressing, I know. Week 41: Landscape View from the inside. (alternatively) View from the outside.

  • Of life in the shtetl; Tevye had a point

    A fiddler on the roof… it sounds crazy. But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us… is a fiddler on the roof. Before I lived here in Israel, I lived in a tight-knit Jewish shtetl called New York. Trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking…

  • Bebe update: Two and a half years

    Bebe, One day, you might be a mom. Remember when I told your older brother recently after he asked a version of the classic question and I answered – “babies grow inside imas… they start as eggs… that are inside all girls when they’re born” – and then you looked up at me wide-eyed and…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Smell

    Week 40: Smell Familiar.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Green

    Week 39: Green Growing… growing… green.

  • 3 things this week that make me want to ditch my smartphone

    You ever get that nausea when you have too much of a good thing, like candy corn? (which is actually just one. One piece of candy corn.) I’ve been feeling that way on and off about my smartphone for months. Really the internet in general – I work on the internet, albeit not the Dave…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Mechanical

    Literally street art. Did you know yarn bombing – or graffiti knitting – is a thing? Taken in Tel Aviv, near Nachalat Binyamin. Week 38: Mechanical Absolute fab. 

  • Fifty-Two Frames: What is it?

    Fun theme. I thought about it all week and then was suddenly inspired this morning… So, what is it? Week 37: What is it? Furry desert? Really bad backne? Or…?

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