Ginrod

Grief is lonely, it’s a tunnel with no light. It breaks you and tears you up inside. It hurts.  It consumes you by eating at you, it takes your words out and replaces them with silence. It makes you dead. The dreams were always horrifying. Dead serpents falling out from a muddy ceiling, landing in [...]

For the last seven weeks, I have been working on the Team Crossroads marketing campaign. The organization serves at-risk Anglo youth in Israel and their center sits in the middle of Jerusalem, off of Jaffo Road. The once loud, bustling street has been silenced by the light rail, instilling a refreshing calm in one of [...]

Since i was 18, when I was forced to take a step back and make decisions that would affect my life, I relied heavily on natural occurrences that would make decisions for me. These occurrences would come in the form of a dream or the way i reacted to a sound of the word.  It [...]

I’ve come to a point where I am beginning to trust my GPS more than my own logic. Yesterday, I was taken to the top of a mountain, to the entrance of a national park that hosts a stalactite cave rather than listen to my own logic of “a community center cannot be situated in [...]

“You’re experiencing the most hectic time in your life” my friend explains to me as i vent to him about my week. Our household has been met with fevers, flu, strep. We’re covered in germs. The breaking point came when I put both children down for their nap and our dog, who has been experiencing [...]

When you go in for a blood test, the procedure is always the same. Arm, vein, stick. The nurse reads the different types of tests you need from a piece of peper and then picks the color-coded vials from a tray next to her. Some of the vials come in different shapes and there are [...]

There is an army training video, that reviews the incident that left Tsiki dead. I know this because every couple months a friend calls me up to let me know they watched it on their reserve service, and that something in that video reminded them of something they already knew. “It was as if everything [...]

All of my Rabbi’s tell me there are no coincidences. I don’t mind believing them. It’s life’s little traffic cone that reminds you we are still alive, and blood is pumping through our veins.  So when i found out this pregnancy has the expected due date of August 3 (my birthday) i took this as [...]

I’m not sure my brain ever turns off. Work, Job, motherhood. It’s like you’re living on an adrenaline rush and it seems like our household is alive until we fall exhausted into our bed at night. but we totally love it. despite the insanity of our schedules. I think the best thing I ever did [...]