Alive

… albeit barely. No matter – the Congress was a success, people had a great time and I’m feeling really positive about the future of the organization. This next week will be meetings with the Executive Board, which will also be hard and tiring and etc. Hopefully they will go well though, and then maybe [...]

BS

No, really. I’m going to spend the week in Be’er Sheva, a city in almost the absolute center of the country. Fear not, friends, I’m not going for fun. My work hosts an international conference every year, and the reason I haven’t written anything recently is because my life has been consumed by planning for [...]

NOT a 98-pound weakling

… and yet:
I was carrying my laundry home this morning, and this man walking past me asked if I needed any help. He was really concerned, and seemed upset when I told him that I was fine. Ok, he could have just been a little off. But then about 10 meters up the sidewalk, this [...]

Gratitude and other things

A very good friend of mine here in J-town is going through some really tough times. She called me the other night freaking out, and we met at Slow Moshe’s (a hole in the wall/pub – but more hole in the wall than pub) for drinks and deep talks, tears and laughs. As much as [...]

You’re only as old as they tell you

Apparently, I’m not really 23.27 (I did the math based on the date my parents told me I popped out). I took a test, and it told me:
Today, December 7, 2006, your RealAge is 21.4! But you could be younger — in as few as 90 days. Simply follow your personalized recommendations in My RealAge [...]

not just boots

I finally found a pair of boots. Tall and black and with a bit of spunk.
Now here’s the thing. These aren’t just a regular pair of boots. They are superhero boots. When I put them on I feel a little tingle (no, they don’t pinch my toes) – like all of a sudden I can [...]

9 months

I arrived in Israel 9 months ago today. If I was really on top of the game, I could have had an Israeli baby today.
That was a weird observation.
The plane arrived in Ben Gurion airport at something rediculous like 3am. My cousin and uncle met me at the airport, with my cousin holding a boquet [...]

I think maybe I should have been born Arab

I went to the Old City with a really good friend of mine today. We met up with her boyfriend (who knows it really well) and a friend of his, and wandered the pungent, crowded, dirty corridors as well as the quieter and more beautiful alleyways. We went from the Muslim quarter to the Jewish [...]