Roses are red violets are blue I couldn’t care less about 14th Feb so let me spoil that Valentine’s feeling for you… seriously, I don’t see the point in all this mushiness on demand, a day in the year in which people attempt to prove their love for someone by spending money on overpriced roses, [...]
Why worry
I’m always laughing at how my mother tends to worry all the time, but I see that I have not fallen that far from the tree. Planning a trip home to Israel, I’ve been a bundle of anxiety, and why? My human nature says: I want to feel I’m in control. There are so many [...]
Forgiven much, loving much
Totally random and unstructured notes and thoughts from last night’s sermon based on Luke 7:36-50 (if you don’t have a Bible but want to follow the reading, you can find it easily on Bible Gateway.) Simon, the guy who had invited Jesus to his house, was too proud to see his own need for forgiveness [...]
Beautiful
Beautiful.
It’s cold but there’s
glorious sunshine outside
and I just saw a couple of squirrels
running across the back fence
That’s all I wanted to say.
Sometimes this is how my day starts
Sometimes this is how my day starts:
Waking
and feeling that life is
just too much
This is not a cry for help, nor is it a request for advice. I just find it helpful to say it out loud, that’s all. I’ve lived through plenty of days like this, and no doubt, with God’s help, I will get through this one too. Thank you for listening.
Handling disagreements English-style
Exploring differences in culture As an Israeli living amongst the English, I am fascinated by the cultural differences I see. English culture is a lot more polite than ours, and there’s a great emphasis on avoiding confrontation. So they won’t (normally) tell you to your face that they disagree with you, they’d present their disagreement in a [...]
I’ve never been good at geography, but…
I was filling in an online survey (yes, another one) and one of the questions was to do with parts of the world you have either visited or lived in. One item on the list was Asia. A separate item on the list was the Middle East. I come from Israel. It’s in the Middle [...]
Top spam comment ever!
Whenever I have writer�� s block, I look up at her letter, read her words, breathe in the pink, and write.
It’s almost poetic, don’t you think?
Introverts/extroverts – not better or worse, just different!
Some thoughts about the introvert/extrovert thing (just off the top of my head, not an attempt at a thorough examination of the subject) I think we humans have a tendency sometimes to look at someone else’s behaviour pattern and judge it through the lens of our own personality type. On the one hand, I’ve often [...]
Online surveys – who designs them, and what planet do these people come from?
so I go onto this department store website and they ask if I’m ok with answering their survey when I’m done, to give them feedback about using their website – cool, I think, and on the whole it wasn’t too painful, but… one question was asking about my use of other (competing) websites, stuff like [...]
