1) Fall and break right shoulder and left knee, slicing head open on the way down. Rack up $15,000 emergency room bill. 2) Sell house while incapacitated from fall, requiring endless moving help from closest friends. 3) Soldier through 7 week injury “quarantine” only to have it merge into 11 week COVID quarantine, for a […]
Saving the best for last
I’ve had a good time touring around with Abdul. He’s just way more my speed, and I find myself bold enough to ask the questions that matter – to me, at least. I make fun of myself a lot, I know. Some things just don’t ever make sense to me. Geometry is one – I […]
Bringing you up to speed
Sorry for the silence – I was felled by a cold a couple of days ago and I ran out of extra energy. By way of recap – we’re in Jordan now. Before we left Israel, we had a chance to tour Masada, which is the remains of a palace Herod the Great (King of […]
An expected (and an unexpected) sobering experience
We started our day at Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Memorial operated in Jerusalem. Their goal is to give recognition and identification to 5 million of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. They have currently identified about 4 million of the victims and feel they can get to 5 million. Each […]
Travels with Valerie 