The Bookseller of Jerusalem
So many things to still unpack out of my head from the Israel trip – I expect the stories are going to keep dribbling out over the next couple of […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
A Chat with T-Mobile
The conversation is predictable: first you wade through the cloying chatty voice response system and wait on hold for 10-15 minutes. Every 20 or so seconds, the Muzak rendition of […]
Working Backward
After my previous-minus-one post, the wise Miss Em delicately asked that I not try too hard to put out little storycrafted works of literature. That I should just tell y’all […]
Yeeeehaaaaa!
The saying around my office is “Pics, or it didn’t happen”. Sadly, I was too busy having fun, and it was only as I was swinging the P-51 around on […]
Watch this space… (or not)
Man, it’s hard to get back up on the horse. You’ll have noticed that I haven’t been writing (please tell me you’ve noticed?) But when I sat down last night […]
In summer, everything is possible
“When the Muse comes, she doesn’t tell you to write; she says, get up for a minute, I’ve got something to show you, stand here.” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at […]
Quiet Time
Been kind of quiet lately, yes, I know. Back home, with family, and no real travels on the horizon. Work – my “real” work (to the extent that any of […]
Yom Hazikaron
At precisely 11:00, a siren wail rose in the distance; seconds later another, closer, joined the chorus. We were halfway down Machane Yehuda, the crowded, bustling vegetable market on the […]
Princes and Prime Ministers
The second time, a place is familiar, the third time it is comfortable, the fourth time, it is home. This morning was Ramallah again, and while I think it would […]
Overload
This happens some times, when I’ve seen too much, when I’ve heard too much. I come down the stairs, turn left across the street, and it hits, like a wave […]
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