Bis bald Wien!
At the airport on the first leg of my journey!✈️
At the airport on the first leg of my journey!✈️
Okay, now that importing the blog has been succesful, it’s time to…you know…clean this puppy up (so many labels!)! That’ll be an “in-between” semester job…
I am glad that I am a digital packrat. I’m in the process of restoring this blog from backups, including from my LiveJournal days. I feel good to have a place for my personal writing, and travelogues, on the internet again 🙂
Currently getting ready for Vienna (and also getting this extension of my brand up and running and off the ground). Have a lot of exciting travel in store for the coming year, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with all of you 🙂
The United States is, in no way, a democracy. We’re barely a republic (and whether we’re even still that, or ever were, is very much up for debate). With what appears to be the imminent repeal of Roe v. Wade, those with uteruses are very much under attack. So are those in interracial marriages,…
It has been a hard five months. In September my mom had brain surgery to put in a shunt to treat normal pressure hydrocephalus. Then I lost a dear and older friend in the Gay community to cancer (we have so few older gay Men: the Reagan Administration’s handling of HIV, and AIDS largely…
I am, in this moment in time, awfully sad. My heart aches in ways that I have never known before. My soul is bleeding, scarred, and bruised. These emotions, however, are profound, and I am allowing myself to sit – not wallow – in them. It is vitally important that I feel them, and…
This September my Mom, and best friend, had brain surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus. She had a shunt put in, and was so excited to be feeling better, walking instead of shuffling, and a number of other symptoms seemed to move by the wayside. This, sadly, did not last long. I found Fran having…
When I was emigrating from the United States to Israel I remember the feeling of jumping from a waterfall. I could provide the inertia and forward movement, but the laws of the universe (physics, God, your preferred higher power) would guide me down safely. I had to have faith, courage, and trust. It led…
Yesterday on the treadmill for my stress test I initially had some very negative thoughts. It was Veterans Day. While I’m not a veteran of the US, I was an NCO in the IDF. I, in my younger years, have hiked the highest mountains in the Negev Desert, mountains in Northern Israel. I completed…