Bis bald Wien!
At the airport on the first leg of my journey!✈️
Getting Ready to Cleanup The Blog
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…
Restoring From Backups
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 🙂
Getting Ready for Vienna
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 🙂
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal,” baseball hats long lost, and the absurdity of focusing on elections while the country burns
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,…
Traumatic Growth & Life Changes
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…
Gathering Dandelions
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…
Grieving The Still Living / Modeh Ani
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…
Jumping Down The Waterfall
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…
Can’t do. Can do.
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…