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Bring Out the Cocoa

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Judy Labensohn

Once I realized that my nose surgery was not going to deform me forever and that I didn’t care if I had an unseemly blackish-brown scab the size of a shekel on the side of my nose, I buckled down … Continue reading →

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A Day in the Slice of a Writer

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Judy Labensohn

It’s 12:22 PM and I still haven’t been able to sit down to work on my memoir. I did my morning stretches, drank hot water with lemon, followed by black coffee, ate my morning oatmeal and millet with date, walnuts … Continue reading →

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Why I’ve Changed My Attitude towards Engineers

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Judy Labensohn

My inner curious George has been hyper-active over the past few months. The engineering feat developing opposite my kitchen window pulls me and my iPhone camera out of the house on Saturday afternoons. I’m documenting the building of the new … Continue reading →

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TCB, Taking Care of Business in Bully Land

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

Let’s imagine Jerusalem as a total institution, controlled and constrained as a mental hospital. Such institutions, delineated by strict borders, socialize their inmates into specific roles. Because Jerusalem is a city of hills, a metaphor for understanding the social relationships … Continue reading →

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Kaddish with Rembrandt

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

Even I cried when I just read my last blog post about my late mother. It made me want to document the year of mourning, or at least the first three months. Here goes. After the shloshim I vowed to … Continue reading →

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A Protected Room of Our Own

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

Only yesterday during the siren did I realize my room of my own is not protected: no metal shutters on the bathroom window, no metal doors on the  sliding glass doors. The room of my own was so open to … Continue reading →

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Letter from Camp

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

Dear mom and dab, I’m writing you from book camp. I haven’t been able to write you sooner because I’ve been working on my book all the time. Even when I leave the cabin/cell/room where I actually sit to write … Continue reading →

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Have to Create a Buzz

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

April is bee season in Moshav Beit Zayit. The little black and yellow furry things with wings are busy sucking the nectar from our obese pink roses. Whenever a bee buzzes near me, I run the other way, but I … Continue reading →

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Such a rich life and I haven’t even gotten out of bed.

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

Ten per cent of the human population needs ten hours of sleep or more a night. I am proud to  be part of that exclusive Holy Order of Sleepers. I love to sleep. Over the years I’ve perfected my sleeping, … Continue reading →

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Wizards of Immigration

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Judy Labensohn

On Monday I took my two eldest grand kids, five and seven, to see a Hebrew production of The Wizard of Oz at the Abba Hushi Auditorium in Haifa, because I wanted to introduce my Israeli grand kids to the … Continue reading →

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