From the folks at Wordsmith, the creators of the “A Word A Day” emails that make my mornings: Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give [...]
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An Elegy to Moderate Giftedness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word A Day, AWAD, Bluebeard, buddhism, Danse Russe, idea, Kurt VOnnegut, letting go, life, meditation, Poetry, quotation, random, The West Wing, West Wing, William Carlos Williams, Wordsmith on January 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Vipassana, again
Posted in Buddhism, random, tagged buddhism, Cats, Israel, life, meditation, Meditation Retreat, random, Retreat, stress, Sukkot, vipassana, Work on September 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m heading off to a Vipassana retreat, and I won’t be able to make phone calls, check email, write, read, or otherwise speak for a week. And I am so thrilled! The problem is in the leaving. I’m trying to finish off a big work project (procrastinating until the final second), and clean [...]
Eating on Yom Kippur
Posted in hunger, random, Uncategorized, tagged American Jews, Atonement, Bouillabaisse, buddhism, compassion, Eating, Eating on Yom Kippur, Fasting, Firefly, food drive, high holy days, Israel, Jews in America, Joss Whedon, Judaism, meditation, Nathan Fillion, Prayer, Redemption, Shofar, video, Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur Fast on September 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Until last year, I fasted on every Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, the most serious holy day of the year. I even read the Torah portion from Leviticus 19 for many, many years in synagogue. Then last year, I found myself in Avignon, France, surrounded by the French, their art, culture, and of [...]
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Posted in random, tagged 31st, accomplishments, birthdays, buddhism, Creative writing, food, Grad School, Hemingway, Internet, Israeli wine, life, meditation, Provence, random, Reality TV, road trips, Sommelier, University of Chicago, vipassana, wine, year in review on August 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
‘Twas yesterday. My birthday. 31 on the 31st. My golden birthday, gone in a flash. Shared another birthday with Harry Potter (and his creator JK Rowling), and now an anniversary with Chelsea Clinton, apparently. Went swimming in the sea, had a lovely Italian breakfast with my mother at Rustico Basel, a leisurely soy ice coffee [...]
You get a line, I’ll get a pole, honey
Posted in random, tagged camp, freelance, Galil Mountain Winery, Mandala, meditation, sleepover camp, summer camp on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It feels like summer camp. Hot. Humid. Beachy. Kids out of school. Tourists. Lazy slow weather. Smells of fun fried food. And at times like this I don’t know how I got into or why I got into freelance writing/editing/consulting in the first place. Stuck working all hours. Seriously loaded with work, and only [...]
Forever and a day
Posted in photography, random, tagged apartment, blogging, buddhism, Bus Bomb, Cats, Cheese, coffee cup, Eating Animals, Firefly, FlashForward, food, Food Photography, Golan Heights Winery, Graffiti, herbs, House Hunters International, Israel, Jaffa, Jonathan Safran Foer, life, meditation, photography, photos, random, Suicide Bomb, Surgery, Tel Aviv, Terrorism, vegan, Vegetarianism on June 2, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It’s been forever. I know. Since I’ve written I have: Created a wonderful wine tasting for a food bloggers’ dinner Meditated until my butt and thighs and back no longer hurt from the experience Discovered my sister’s grilled cheese sandwich press (sizzling behind me at the moment) Returned to vegetarian tendencies given up ten years [...]
Dharma and Drudgery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged buddhism, Christopher Titmuss, dhamma, dharma, drudgery, insight meditation, life, meditation, random, stress, Theravada, Tovana, vacation, vegetarian, vipassana on April 28, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Does sitting silently with 100+ strangers in the middle of nowhere for 7 days sound like a vacation to you? I don’t know if I was nuts out of my mind when I signed up, but it did indeed sound like the perfect getaway for this stressed out Telavivian.
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Novelist, editor, food writer, wine steward, blogger, Dhamma student, and American Telavivian.
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