I’ve written before about the accordion of my life. With six kids, two of whom are in the army and three of whom dorm during the week, there is always someone coming or going. The house tends to fill, fill, fill on Friday and then empty, empty, empty for a bit on Sunday. The steadies… Read More A Nurturing Night
I’ve read a few absolutely stunning books recently and it inspired me to blog about them. I love to share my book recommendations, particularly when I find stories that I love (and that often bring me to tears). I’ve also thrown a lot of books aside unfinished so far in 2023…showing that I’m either getting… Read More Ten Terrific Titles
A few years ago, my family of 8 started hiking the Israel Trail together. But we aren’t doing it in the traditional way, taking off for a few months at a time and hiking from one end to the other. Rather, we are using vacation time to hike as a family, starting at the very… Read More The Beauty of the Boring Trail
This first appeared on the Times of Israel blog. It’s almost impossible to put into words what our community of Gush Etzion (and Efrat more specifically) is experiencing at the moment with the murder of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee. We live one town over from where the Dee family lives and we don’t know… Read More Life Today In the Shadow of Murder
On the top of my bucket list is a visit to Iceland. And while I’m there, I hope to find Haraldur Thorleifsson at his new restaurant, enjoying his latest success. I’d like to meet a role model like him. In a world gone mad these days, where it’s commonplace to mock the disabled, to dismiss… Read More 4 Lessons Elon Musk (and the rest of us) can Learn from Haraldur Thorleifsson
I feel like I grow and learn each time that I volunteer at the Pina Chama, the warm corner for soldiers in Gush Etzion. I get so much more than I give. Every time. Yesterday was the birthday of a beautiful boy who we knew for only a brief time, soon after we moved to… Read More Giving and Receiving at the Pina Chama
It’s not easy living thousands of miles and 10 time zones from family. But then no one said it was going to be. It’s not always easy to plan trips and to straddle our active (crazy) life here with the desire to visit and be part of life there. For these reasons and many more,… Read More 80 Reasons for Gratitude
My house is an accordion. After so many years of having little feet, and little shoes, and big noises around, we have a very quiet house during the week. And ‘during the week’ is the key phrase here. With two sons in the army and three in sleep-in high schools, that leaves me, Josh and… Read More My House, the Accordion
I always love the way that Goodreads shows a visual at the end of the year of your reading history. It’s colorful and fun and a great way to see the whole year at once. Here are a few take-aways from my reading adventures in 2022. 1. I am a very picky reader – I… Read More Romi’s Reading Roundup – 2022
Corkies. My first memory of cousin Nancy involves Corky shoes. I was hanging out at Nana Shirley and Papa Jerry’s house and I was in their pool. A bunch of people walked in, and I have absolutely no memory of anything about that day except for how cool my older cousin Nancy was, and how… Read More Love You Cousin Nancy
