The trip is over physically, but the emotional ripples are still ringing out through the system. There was so so much good stuff, in between grief hung like a lace curtain. New babies, one of which holds M's name, both of which are easy going pleasures ( Read more... )

Lame Title Brain 2 Full...I'm packed but for this laptop ( Read more... )

Going to see the new babies!I'll be going to Jersey and Pennsy for a long weekend starting tomorrow. But mostly I'm excited to see my nieces from Israel. They're grown and can have an actual conversation! Interesting conversations. My sister brought them to get their American citizenship, 'bout time ( Read more... )

It's been near freezing here and it's so not supposed to get this cold here ( Read more... )

Well not exactly fallen more like thrown to the ground and stomped on. Been seriously on the D-train for a while now, lots of lost time, if I didn't know better I'd say I was old and headed into Alzheimer's.
( What the Ground Looks Like )

I read a blog A Soldier's Mother of an Israeli mother who's son is deployed in the Gaza war ( Read more... )

Palestinian projectiles, Grad, and Mortars land near Netivot, Eshkol, Gedera
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Ma'an News, The Journal of Turkish Weekly

"Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli media reported the landing of several projectiles, a 60s-era Grad missile and dozens of mortars at Israeli targets throughout the western Negev Tuesday morning ( Read more... )

I got this from G, my sister.
"Watch Aish.com's powerful new short film, 15 Seconds"
AishThe missiles hit in her town this past Wednesday, put her kids having 30 - 60 seconds to get in their bomb shelter. Our friend Iz lives just north of this 15 second town. We spent a week on his kibbutz 4 years ago when they was shelling of Serhot ( Read more... )

Our father had surgery to remove the aneurysm in his gut. He's home recouping. The surgery went well, but he's 85 and well things hurt, being hours flat on his back caused extra pain issues for him. In two weeks he's back to hospital for surgery to remove plaque in his carotid arteries. That one seems a bit more scary due to the proximity to his ( Read more... )

"Gedera, some 35 km from the Gaza Strip, reported a hit later. On Day 5 of the Gaza conflict, Wednesday, Dec. 31, Hamas loosed a massive hail of rockets and missiles every few minutes. They claimed 9 Grad rockets had been fired at distant communities. Wednesday, Hamas fired 60 missiles and rockets in two and-a-half hours, striking targets in an ( Read more... )