Carmel Market, Tel Aviv

After a great breakfast and fabulous coffee, Michal, Kendra, Ken and I headed to the Carmel Art Market in Tel Aviv.  This art market runs Tuesdays and Fridays and is full of vendors selling arts and crafts they’ve made themselves.  It’s wonderfully colorful and fun.   Just walking down the street is a treat.   Every [...]

People of the Book

I’ve had Geraldine Brook’s novel, People of the Book in my hands several times.  I finally bought it at the airport in Tel Aviv.    I like Brook’s writing style and find her characters engaging, human and believable. With my now-frequent trips to Israel, I get more from reading about the Jews, their history [...]

Wanting to be good at something…

changes the game.  The reward is no longer about the doing, it is about the result, the outcome, the final product. No longer is the pursuit enough. You must succeed. The stakes are higher when you want to be good. Wanting to be good introduces disappointment, missed expectations, false hopes, and failure. Mistakes suddenly have meaning.  
Henri Cartier [...]

Prosciutto Crudo in Israel

I love prosciutto. I toast my glass to the genious who thought to cure a slab of swine with sea salt and stick it in a cave for 18 months. God love him. The smell, the texture, the thin strips that fold so easily on themselves, the saltiness, [...]

Still Awake In Tel Aviv

For a technologist, I’m pretty clumsy about this blogging stuff.  I can’t figure out how to do half the stuff I want and suspect I’ll end up needing to learn HTML.  Oh well.  Back to Israel.The artist community we saw today was built on the ruins of the crusader fort, Atlit.  Once possessed by the [...]