Crude (Adjective) Not carefully or expertly made; “managed to make a crude splint”; “a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them”; “rough carpentry” Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; “coarse language”; “a crude joke”; “crude behavior”; “an earthy sense of humor”; “a revoltingly...
A news brief in yesterday’s Haaretz newspaper caught my eye. “WIZO: Increase in firings of pregnant women There was a steep rise last year in the number of women who complained they were fired or had their work conditions significantly worsened because they were pregnant, or after they returned from maternity leave. The numbers were published by WIZO, the...
Despite the dearth of political postings lately, anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while probably has at least an inkling as to my political leanings. I was in favor of the Disengagement (though I believe that the way the government has treated the evacuees since then is positively shameful), and in spite of the current shaky state of affairs, I still believe...
I realize that I haven’t been writing much lately, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve been neglecting my blog. Okay, maybe I have been neglecting my blog, but only a little. Just because I haven’t been sharing the usual amount of scintillating, witty prose, I have been keeping busy. To use the technical term, I’ve been tweaking. Adding a few bells...
When we got married, we chose to go to Jamaica for our honeymoon. I had gone there for Spring Break during my junior year at university, and having had a taste of only one part of this beautiful island, I was anxious to see what else Jamaica had to offer. And, if I was being truly honest with myself, I wanted to go back to Jamaica for the music. I wanted a holiday infused with...
As an American citizen, I have every right to vote in the US elections. However, because I chose to live in Israel, I prefer to sit back and watch the campaigns unravel unfold from afar without taking part. As an American living abroad, I believe that it’s not my place to try to influence the outcome, given that my agenda as an expat doesn’t necessarily gel with...
The little boy with the brand new haircut races into the bathroom where the mother is, ummm, busy. She tells him how handsome he looks with his haircut. He grins, asks for a hug, then says, “Mommy, I love you”, as he runs off. Go on. Beat that. Tweet
Aaaah… CHOO! ‘Scuse me, folks, but I’ve been hit with a nasty cold that I just can’t seem to shake. Two pots of soup (one chicken and the other lentil), and countless bowls of oatmeal and cups of tea (and I don’t even like tea!) later, and quite frankly, I’m still not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Oh, and did I mention that...
To say that life has been rather hectic during the past few weeks would be an understatement (said the blogger, in order to explain the serious dearth of blog entries recently). Aside from issues at the office that have left me feeling rather unsettled and preoccupied, I’ve managed to work in quality time (of which there wasn’t nearly enough) with two sets of...
Happy New Year! Not, of course, that you’d know it was any sort of special day around these parts, given that both December 31st and January 1st are considered regular days here, and while more and more local establishments are going out of their way to offer special New Year’s Eve meals and celebrations, I think it’s safe to say that Tel Aviv won’t be...