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— birthday, birthdays, parenting —

Fire at 51: A bit too much drama for my birthday

June 15, 2022

Everyone knows that Facebook doesn’t tell the whole story. Sometimes it tells half of it; sometimes it’s a third. But it’s rarely the whole picture. Two weeks ago was, to put it mildly, very crazy in our house. One kid had a basketball accident which required a trip to the emergency center, then a trip… Read More Fire at 51: A bit too much drama for my birthday

— birthday, brit, brothers, family —

Yakir Yaacov: 10 Years in a Flash

November 17, 2020

I think anyone who has lived a few decades understands that they absolutely don’t understand time. It’s such a weird thing, time. You feel like you have a lot of it when you’re young, and then as  you get older it suddenly seems to dissolve in front of you like grains of sand through your… Read More Yakir Yaacov: 10 Years in a Flash

— beginnings, blessings, new beginnings, parenting —

My Expanding Heart: 18 Years Later

February 20, 2020

My second son turns 18 on Friday, and while I was reminiscing about his birth and his first few days (as I always tend to do around their birthdays), I find myself thinking about the day before his birth. What happened on that day? It was a Thursday, like today, and I took my oldest,… Read More My Expanding Heart: 18 Years Later

— Jerusalem, SHALVA —

Inspired by Cafe Shalva

July 28, 2017

I love going to new places in Israel and introducing the kids to unusual and eye-opening experiences. Zeli’s birthday is on Sunday and we wanted to do something a bit different for him today. We’ve raised money in the past, through the Jerusalem Marathon, for Shalva and knew that they had opened an amazing new… Read More Inspired by Cafe Shalva

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