Starting Sunday, all vaccinated people over 60 are being encouraged to go to get their booster shots. You realize what this means: The senior citizens of Israel are the front line of the universal fight against Corona. We’re the canaries in the coal mine. Why is the world watching the Olympics? We’re the ones the world should be training their eyes on. Me and my old buddies… Watch this page to see if I croak.
july 30, 2021 – aging canaries Read Post »
I made an appointment for a third vaccine on Tuesday. But first I plan to do a serology test on Sunday to see if I need it. Serology tests cost money – about $60. Vaccines are free. This means that the economic division created and/or intensified by Corona will now reach into the area of health.
july 30, 2021 – here’s my medical advice Read Post »
I didn’t mean to, but I was trying to make a link to my old diary, from 2001-2021, and I snuck a peek. Wow, was it interesting! It’s here.
I don’t know yet how to make it available again – but I’ll figure it out, and I may even read more than just a few days. What we have been through – wars, terrorism, plagues, demonstrations – and incredible joy and fun as well!
july 29, 2021 – I cheated, i read my diary Read Post »
For the past month, we have been pretty much in isolation. Ah, who am I kidding? We’ve been having a great time seeing only a very few people. No concerts, no plays, no operas, no groups, no real restaurants, no parties, no lectures, no readings. Only zooms, walks, beach…
Don’t you feel sorry for us?
And now that Ezi will probably be a bit more resistant to the virus, and now that I too will probably be getting my booster next week, we can begin to feel more comfortable about seeing the grandchildren. Who knows? Maybe some kind of life will return for us guinea pigs…
july 29, 2021 – third vaccine starting sunday Read Post »
Look Ma! No Hands! Someone helped me figure out some idiotically simple things about doing this website, and after a long hard morning of learning how to be simple, I spent the afternoon learning what was screwing up my online supermarket orders – and now that’s it, I’m off to the beach. I may even take my bike!
july 29, 2021 – getting better at this Read Post »
Some of my friends have granddaughters who are going into the army this week, and they are worried that they will not be able to share anything with them in the future. I had to comfort them – that their jobs were just beginning. There is lousy food in the army. And such small portions! So they will not only have to send care packages every week, but they will also be going to the base on Saturdays with lunch. We always called that the Shnitzel patrol.
And on the weekend that they come home, they bring back all their laundry and it has to be done before they go back to the base. Ironed.
Whatever the fierce appearance of the Israeli army – it is based on parents who cook and clean and iron, parents who make sure there are warm socks and good hiking boots, parents who listen to the complaints about the mean commander.
july 28, 2021 – shnitzel patrol Read Post »
I know I always promise to write about Tel Aviv, and I turned CNN just to escape for a bit, but the hearing over January 6, 2021 overwhelmed me. The clear evidence that pointed to the involvement of the former president but was ignored until so many months later – recalls for me so many things that we ignore because they are too horrible to believe.
july 27, 2021 – Capitol hearings Read Post »
I don’t know if I want to tell you about this. It is, after all, the most romantic place I could imagine in the area to have an anniversary breakfast. Not many people seem to know about it, and that’s part of its wonder. it’s called “Hapina Hayeruka” translated as the green corner. My friend, Naama, brought me there a while ago, and I fell in love. So it was appropriate that I would bring my lover there on the day of our 41rst wedding anniversary. If you insist, I’ll post more pictures, but I’m not as good a photographer as Ezi is.
It’s mainly a conference center, and there was a conference of social workers going on somewhere in the building. While Ezi was taking gorgeous pictures I was watching the conference participants sneaking out the back for a smoke – mostly men wearing cippot or speaking Arabic, sometimes both – wearing cippot and speaking Arabic. One of them stepped out onto the balcony where we were eating and lit up. The manager ran out and stopped him, warning him that there were diners, and the smoker said – “but SHE’s smoking! Look at her! She just hid a cigarette in the flower pot when you were busy accusing me!” How this guy from some village knew to pick on the one person who would break out into gales of laughter at the accusation I don’t know. But it just added to the pleasure of my breakfast.
july 26, 2021 – secret cafe Read Post »
