Happily ever after does not exist.   Do set goals, do work hard to reach them, do set new goals, do maintain flexibility, do allow for change. Do not suffer through misery for the goal (it will never compensate in the end and not satisfy completely in the future). Do not think: while it doesn’t work now, it will in 5 yrs when I am ready.  You are ( Read more... )

 This time last year I was in Tel Aviv, telling people "Boker tov, ma nishma?" in the morning.  This morning my work email headlines were the same.  Life is so unpredictable.  One of the funniest things is that the seeds of Israeli knowledge that were planted this time last year, were watered and fertilized here in the US.  2007 was a year of ( Read more... )

When I return, when I come back, when I am greeted, “welcome home” by a naked man covered in dust from head to toe, or perhaps by a half dressed or half undressed (empty or full?) woman with dreaded hair and an ecstatically welcoming and serene smile, when I step out of the dust covered car into the cloud created by the movement by the wheels, when ( Read more... )