Posts Tagged ‘dream’

Kayaks Over Chemo

Monday, April 16th, 2012

As we sit here once again on the seventh floor of Shaare Zedek, last week seems like a dream.

I planned the trip months ago with the full knowledge that our chances of actually getting away for a family vacation were like…. were like the chances of a football team that barely made the playoffs winning the Super Bowl.

But I also knew that the opportunity to get away with the family was just as important as the nasty chemotherapy, and a lot more fun.  So we planned….. and hoped.

And it happened.

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Pigskin in Kosher Country

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

The sight of two teams in full gear playing tackle football in the middle of Jerusalem may seem a bit out of place. After all, this is a soccer country [Technically, Israelis call it football -Ed.] where the instinctive impatience of Israelis may seem to go against the controlled violence that is at the heart of a football game. I remember once back in Maryland trying to teach an Israeli friend to play. He liked the tackling part but couldn’t get used to the concept of letting the tackled player get up and waiting for the next play to tackle him again.

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