I am in here.
[Sorry about the lack of posts. On Monday, the DSL in this area died. It came back the next day, but our wireless router was still dead. All fixed now!] So you know you’re really in Jaffa when you stand in an overheated little kitchen off of a pigeon-shit-bespattered courtyard, slopping dishwater on the tiles … Continue reading Jaffa, life therein.
It is the evening of the morning in which many people were blown up just ten minutes’ drive from where I am living in Yafo, right next to Tel Aviv, and at least one killed. Everyone else in the blogosphere, and in the journalistic world in general, is writing about it. Ten minutes away, and … Continue reading It is the evening of the day.
The electricity went out this morning. This is a minor crisis for me because, not only do I not get my Internet, I don’t get air conditioning. In Jaffa’s summertime, this is worth getting upset about. Dafna arrives for work, and we can’t figure out what the problem is… all the circuit breakers are in … Continue reading Early one Sunday morning…
Sea far enough away that I cannot hear it. Skinny cat prowls outside the restaurant’s lighted windows. Silverwares jangling in another room. Laughter. The horn of the local mosque sounds. My friends speak a language I don’t understand. I listen and write.
white pebble 