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 [...]
Team Crossroads
on February 28, 2013
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 [...]
Semantics of life
on January 12, 2013
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 [...]
Technology
on December 31, 2012
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 [...]
Hi it’s me
on December 30, 2012
“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 [...]
Blood Test
on September 6, 2012
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 [...]
Remembering Tsiki 2012
on April 24, 2012
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 [...]
Mangoes
on February 21, 2012
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 [...]
on January 28, 2012
It became my daily routine, parking behind the sleek, black BMW convertible. My middle-class, powder blue Mazda 3, the word sport to make The Huzzy and I feel that we still have youth at our fingertips. Always a bit dusty and the wheels always dirty. The BMW looked washed every day. Her license plates from [...]
Updates
on November 17, 2011
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 [...]
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Germapino with a Jewish Twist. Jewapino with a German twist. GermJew with a Filipino Twist. Collective Thoughts of a Ginrod are the musings of a Texas born,half German, half Filipina girl who who went on a trip to Bangkok and found herself in the Holy Land , as a jew, married to an Englishman, with a Ziggy and an Ella and a dog named Henckel . I made it and without rehab.
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The Sheital and her Tichel
October 24, 2006
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First things first.
June 18, 2006
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The worth of a necklace
August 2, 2006
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Drunken Brunch
August 5, 2006
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What’s in a name? January 18, 2007
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Yom Hazikkaron 2013
April 14, 2013
- Team Crossroads February 28, 2013
- Semantics of life January 12, 2013
- Technology December 31, 2012
- Hi it’s me December 30, 2012
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