Several of you have written to ask me if I plan to work as a nurse here.  The answer is "not sure, but definitely not yet".  My ex...

6 months!  Wahoo!!!! http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/6-month-aliyah-versary/

Yesterday, during ulpan,  we took a field trip to the local supermarket.  I learned a lot from our trip and only wish that we had gone du...

If only my photography skills were better, I bet there could be a photo exhibit of people I see while waiting in line for the bank machine. ...

Yesterday, my brave sister-in-law, Hilary (my husband's stepsister), died after a 17 year battle with Stage IV breast cancer....She live...

We are still having so many "firsts" that it's a bit hard to believe that we had our first "ending" here: we just ha...

We recently celebrated the holiday of Tu B'Shvat--the New Year of the Trees ("Chag Ha'Ilanot" or, as Ilana says, "my ...