It’s been quite some time now that Dorit and I have been living next to each other rather than with each other. She’s a teacher, I work in the high tech industry. Indeed, we’re free to go at the end of the work day, we don’t live in small shacks and we don’t have to [...]
The dry definition of a game is “a contest with rules to determine a winner”. I have developed a strange feeling that my dog, a small Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is playing a continuous game with me. Indeed, sometimes she wins but most of the time I lose. The rules are simple. We go out [...]
Thirteen years ago, to the day, a white Mazda pulled over next to a bus stop in the heart of Givatayim, a town across the river from Tel Aviv. A young man of thirty five stepped out of the car, greeted the young lady who was standing there, and opened the car door for her. [...]
Guy came home with cookies he baked in kindergarten. He offered me the heart shaped cookie with the chocolate chips on top. I have tasted kindergarten cookies before, after all, Guy is my forth child, plus I don’t exactly dislike cookies. Understandably, my enthusiasm was as high as my expectation was, namely none. However, when [...]
In the last week or so I started questioning my own sanity. It felt like wherever I was looking, or whatever I was doing, there were bicycles all around. Children bicycles, adult ones, mountain bikes and race bikes, large and small, cheap and expensive. On the highway, next to my house, on TV. On the [...]
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