Havdalah

The afternoon of Shabbat spent on the beach in Jaffa: just me and a couple of hundred of the people whose acts I’ve been decrying in this blog, as if they’re a people of only one mind and opinion. I still decry those actions. But I can no longer see all Arabs in the same Continue reading Havdalah

Tamar is here!

She’s here! Allison over at An Unsealed Room gave birth July 12 to Baby Blogger Tamar! I doubt that Tamar is ready for her first WordPress install (yet), but here’s hoping that she takes to sleeping through the night remarkably early. Mazel Tov, Allison and Tamar!

Perfect sentences, and the shrub.

Some days, just leafing through blogs, I come across one perfect sentence. Like this one from Lileks… Believing in Bush’s perfidy gives some people the same comfort and emotional nourishment others get from believing in Jesus. Wakes me up better than a cup of tea, it does.