It's 8:26 AM: do you know where your chametz is? Mine is quietly minding its own business in the cupboard, doing whatever chametz does when left unattended. I'm slowly coming to terms with Passover starting in only 10 hours, another holiday where I failed to...
Hello, teenage readers! Are you sick of listening to the Jonas Brothers? Not ready to go to frat parties and barf all over yourselves? Then perhaps a year in Israel is for you. Whereas Taglit-Birthright Israel has become the most popular short-term...
Holy hafuch, Batman...
If you've been paying attention, you saw that I've been looking for an apartment. Well, I was looking, for all of three days. Thanks to Homeless, Israel's version of Craig's list, I found something almost immediately, doing it in Hebrew all by myself...
So Purim has come and gone in this Jewish state of ours...
That's the jibberish I talk when I want to make fun of "my kids" and the fact that they live in, and cannot live without, a ridiculous world of technology. My 32 year-old mind cannot comprehend how these 18 year-olds come to Israel for 9...
Thanks for tuning in, loyal readers. As I wrote, work has been crazy. The little monsters (not so little really, no monsters thusfar) arrived from the States and the UK a week and a half ago, ready for fun. Only two...
My parents just booked tickets to visit in December. WHOO-HOOO!!! This will be their first visit in over 20 years. I’m excited. So I’m still really busy with work as I will continue to be for the next month or so. My weekend was/has been spent...
Here I sit, in seat 45A. Hardly an empty seat on the flight, and somehow there’s one next to me. I was really hoping to post an entry from JFK Airport before boarding but I just didn’t have the time. Someone asked...