Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Fifty-Two Frames: Break the Rules
Kinda like the side of the highway, where I walk in the mornings and find leftover snow to step in, for just a second, while no one’s watching – my 52 Frames photo this week is one last photographic taste of the good white stuff. Except more like street-lit at nighttime yellowish stuff. I debated…
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Israeli snow 2013: Tzur Hadassah makes for an adorable snow town.
If you don’t live in or near the greater Jerusalem area, if you don’t follow a resident of aforementioned region on some sort of social media channel, then you’re one of the very few who didn’t hear that today was a two-decade record for snowfall and a very active snow day (across the Middle East,…
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Bebe update: Twenty one months
You’re a little fierce, you know that? You’re also unstoppable. Seriously unstoppable. Your tiny arms can toss around a bucket of toys, lift my backpack, and carry – not drag – a heavy stool across the Science Museum’s hands-on exhibit. Because there is no way your brother gets to do all that cool stuff without…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Rule of Thirds
Another year, another photography term learned. The rule of thirds seemed obvious to me but maybe that says something about how naturally it works? I don’t think too hard about the rules which is why it’s fitting we’re meant to break them for next week. This is a funky park bench I spotted around Tzur…
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Parents of kindergartners.
Remember when you were young, sweet-innocent-young, not boyfriend-naive young, no, really really young, sheltered-from-the-meaning-of-war young, and life was a big friend grab, and you managed to get yourself a pair of great friends, so you didn’t have to be left alone at play time, most of the time, and sure, they were already an inseparable…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Self-Portrait
First off, I started participating in Fifty-Two Frames exactly 52 weeks ago, January 2012, and this week I completed it, in time for a new round called 2013. Secondly, this week’s theme was a good one. It had the potential to be awkward, narcissistic, lame, or reflective. Sighofrelief it became the latter. This week I was…
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Israeli elections memes: some real ‘winners’ here
Israeli election season started pretty much right as the U.S. election season ended. Fear not – it’s no less depressing, frustrating and exhausting. I wonder if I can write in a candidate this time, too? Eretz Nehederet (Israeli sketch comedy) collected Israeli election memes and some of them are real… ‘winners’ (ehhhhh). A few of my favs:…
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That awkward moment when… (#tmi)
…your 3.5-year-old son pulls a wrapped pantyliner out of your purse in public and continues to ask, ‘what’s this, Ima?’ …your 1.5-year-old daughter’s been playing around on you and then you look down and realize she’s made inconveniently-located saliva-sucking marks on your t-shirt. …your son is reviewing with you the fact that private parts are…
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Fifty-Two Frames: From My Window
Week 51: From My Window Grows a garden.
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Does he realize my face is wet from tears as I kiss him good night?
Sitting just outside the kids’ room, on the cold tiled floor in the hallway, scrolling through articles on my phone. Silently scanning Newtown coverage, reading Newtown stories, seeing Newtown pictures as my son restlessly attempts sleep, deep within his bottom bunk. “Ima, can you tuck me in?” I don’t even bother wiping the tears from…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Opposite
I cherish that moment just before a small flame dies… If you catch it just at the right moment, you watch its last breath… and then it becomes a memory. I cannot say the same for people. Maybe that’s what makes the concept of an eternal flame so comforting. Week 50: Opposite One minute you’re…
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