In Hebrew: זרים Phonetically: zah-reem I squinted at the check-out screen for a long moment, trying hard to make out the long strings of Hebrew text. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and I was in IKEA, picking up a few items on my own while I had some free time, and the only option I […]
In Hebrew: כֵּיף Phonetically: khef I remember the moment when I knew. It was February of 2016, and I was standing on a frozen hilltop in the Smoky Mountains of Gatlinburg, TN, grinning. I was looking out over the frost-covered valley and rolling white hills where the mountain town was nestled, far below. In every […]
In Hebrew (fem.): שוטפת Phonetically: Sho-tef-eht “I’m hanging your pants up over here!” I called to Ido as he waded out into the turquoise waves. My husband. My husband. It was the third day I could officially call him that. After a year of bureaucratic bullshit and Covid restrictions, we had finally managed to travel […]
Lockdown Dreams It was January of 2021, and Israel was in the middle of its third Covid-19 lockdown. Back in December, we watched it coming in slow motion, now familiar with the pattern: First, the rumors of a shutdown and news of elevated infection numbers. Politicians and health officials and government departments yelling at each […]
I wanted to wait until this part of the story was over – wanted to wait until we had this neat and pretty resolution before I started to tell our beautiful crazy story. By resolution, in this case, I mean marriage. And that’s something we’ve been waiting for since April of 2020. And we literally […]
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