December 2011

Happy 2012 to Everyone!

December 30, 2011

The beginning of 2011 made me extremely unhappy because I was trying to do what everyone else my age was doing: moving closer to family, buying a house, and setting down roots.  I was also away from my husband for the most terrible five months of my entire life. While I value family and closeness extremely highly (like most immigrants), I realized through everything that happened this year that I am not a person who will be content to do what ...

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Scotland the Brave (and also rainy): Edinburgh

December 28, 2011

I didn’t find Scotland so much as it found me, but only after I left it. We were on the morning train from London and I was steeped in the afterglow of that city, a city as formidable and grand and historic and proper as the empire it founded, when I saw the North Sea come up on the right-hand side, out of nowhere, and I gasped, inwardly.  Only later, looking back at this photo, I realized that this is ...

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Travel is my religion (so is really terrible amateur photography)

December 26, 2011

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine Wow.  Where do I start about our vacation to the England and Scotland last week? I love to travel, and I live to travel.  Planning travel is a pain in the ass and makes me really stressed out, but the moment when I see the US disappearing below me is when I am at my happiest.  Being on an airplane, on a train, ...

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Things I hate about Europe

December 21, 2011

We are currently on vacation in The UK (or in queue, as they say here) and will be back soon. I am sure you will be subject to at least two weeks of blog posts about it, but in the meantime, a list! -European bathrooms -European socialism -the fact that everyone has normal chip-based credit cards here and I look like a moron with my American dinosaur -the metric system -24 hour time -Celsius -the fact that Monday is the ...

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Jewish Carols

December 19, 2011

I actually wrote this post two years ago but haven’t been brave enough to publish it until now. It’s about a secret love of mine: Christmas carols. Technically, as  a (nonobservant) Jew, I know I shouldn’t enjoy them or sing them, a knowledge that was imparted on me by my mom who, when I was learning Silent Night in third grade, acted as if she was personally experiencing the Inquisition when it gets to the part about yon Virgin and ...

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