We are trying to make arrangements for some kind of Christmas experience this year. Last year we spent a week in Jerusalem desperately looking for Christmas and hardly found any. In fact, on Christmas Eve, we went to the Swedish Christian Information Center and I asked the lady behind the desk to help me find […]

By Friday afternoon, the web site was reloaded and I finished off a bunch of other long-delayed work. I fixed a great lunch of marinated honey-lemon baked chicken and our favorite home fries with Parmesan cheese baked on them for lunch. Brent arrived home from work five minutes before dinner was ready, so my timing, […]

ARGH!!! I am so tired of software that does more damage than good. I know it is old blather, but aren’t computers supposed to make our jobs easier? I swear…. The web site is finally how I want it, simple and clean and totally without tables, except where appropriate. It took more time than I […]

Maureen has been talking on and on about walking somewhere away from the beach. We did a walk on Sunday along the Ha Yarkon River in Ha Yarkon Park, cruising up one side from Ben Yehuda Blvd to Namir, then across and back down the north side of the river, but she wants to see […]

I was so startled when my dad asked me what our plans were for Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago. Thanksgiving? There is no Thanksgiving in Israel. In fact, there is no Thanksgiving outside of the United States, and even that holiday hasn’t been going on there for all that long, though the myth around it […]

Maureen and I headed up north to get meat yesterday. We’ve been planning and postponing this for weeks, so it was with a great deal of relief when I found my car keys and headed to her place early Tuesday morning. This was really going to happen. Whew! When I had gotten into the car, […]

I wish I could say it has just been another day in the life of two regular folks, and in a way it was, but honestly, it has just been another shocking day in the normal life of human beings on the planet earth. As for me, I’m sick of this type of normalness. Beep, […]

Where was I? Oh, I was going to tell you about our anticipated trip up north to the Tiberias area in the Gah-lil (Sea of Galilee area) to buy meat. That’s right. I’ve been a whirl all day long. So, Wednesday, my whole day was a bit screwed driving to and from Beersheva in the […]

Whew, what happened to the week? I finally got ahold of my mother in Lisbon to wish her a belated happy birthday and to check in to see how their three week cruise around the Mediterranean had gone. She reports that they have had a great time, though she sounded incredibly exhausted. She got the […]

Happy Birthday to my mother, who is just finishing up a cruise throughout the northern Mediterranean with her husband, Robert. I spent the past week trying to figure out how to get to Lisbon to spend a couple days with her, and the airlines have won in their plot against me. What a pain! I’m […]

Whew! I am totally exhausted. Did a lot of final work cleaning up the web site, working through validation issues, and cleaning up some code Friday morning. Time got away from me, so I shoved lunch in my face, jumped in the shower, and raced through the neighborhood dry cleaners to drop a dress off, […]

Walked the beach with Maureen again this morning. That’s three times out this week, three times more than in the past two months. It’s good to get out and about. The exercise and fresh air is certainly helping me clear my head and heart. Coming home is still painful, but the pain is an old […]

I don’t know where the day went, and I think I got a lot accomplished, but it sure feels like I spent more time spinning my wheels than actually doing anything. I spent three hours trying to get our network of three computers to cooperate. Our backup “server”, a large three hard drive desktop, is […]

Well, the storm is still on, but much of the thunder and lightning has died down. I met Maureen at 6:30 for our morning walk and I actually got rained on for all of the ten minutes it took me to get to Gordon and Dizengoff from our apartment near Kikkar Rabin (Rabin Square). I […]

I can’t believe it, but Lake Dubnov is back. Yep. That’s what we call the “lake” that forms in the park below our apartment. Built over a parking garage for the Arts Center (hosting the Performing Arts Center, Library, Tel Aviv Art Museum, and other social avenues), drainage wasn’t taken much into consideration in this […]