Just For Fun

“Not Fit for a Dog”

April 1, 2007

Following the successful conclusion of her first dog-sitting job, my 13-year-old daughter Merav has been looking for ways to expand her business, especially now that she has extra time due to the two and a half week Pesach vacation that began last week. An article last week in the Israeli daily newspaper Idiot Ahronot may […]

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The Winner by a Hair

March 23, 2007

The votes are in and the result is decidedly…inconclusive. On February 8, I posted two pictures of me – one with short and one with long hair and asked readers to vote on which I should keep. I pointed out that my daughter Merav favored the long look while my wife Jody felt I was […]

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My Hair Vote

March 2, 2007

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My Hair

February 8, 2007

For the past several months, I’ve been growing my hair long. The official reason is that my thirteen-year-old daughter Merav wants to dress me up as a girl for Purim, and she wants my hair longer so she can braid it or work with it in some way. But there’s another explanation. As my haircutter […]

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The Price of a Night’s Sleep

December 7, 2006

You know the old saying “time is money?” Well, how much would you say time spent sleeping is worth? As I found out on a recent family vacation: exactly $119 plus tax. We were driving down the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego, stopping for the night at inexpensive motels. Our first night was in Monterey and […]

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Curse of the 42-Inch Plasma

September 22, 2006

There’s an old saying “the only thing that separates men from boys is the size of their toys.” When my wife Jody and I were first planning out our recently-completed home renovation, trying to decide about such critical issues as whether to redo one bathroom or three, the one thing I held out for was […]

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Peekaboo, Peekabar

September 15, 2006

The area around the old train station in Jerusalem has been bustling with activity in the last year or so. New restaurants, bars and clubs have all sprung up, sharing the space that once was the end of the line for the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem train built over 100 years ago by the Turks and finished […]

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Exotic Orlando

May 5, 2006

Here are two words you don’t normally hear in the same sentence: “Exotic” and “Orlando.” Exotic is more frequently associated with places like Tahiti and Thailand or even Monte Carlo. Orlando, on the other hand, is heavy on such decidedly non-exotic offerings as Early Bird Specials and Premium Outlet Malls. But for me, on a […]

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Dental Dichotomy

March 10, 2006

I hadn’t been to the dentist for almost a year. It wasn’t because I was afraid. Rather it was the opposite. The last time I went, there wasn’t enough pain. Now before you accuse me of emulating the masochistic patient who begs for more from dentist in disguise Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, let […]

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Wild Kingdom of Ikea

February 10, 2006

We recently took a trip abroad. But we didn’t get on an airplane, and we didn’t cross any borders. We visited Ikea. Ikea, to the uninitiated (as we were before our recent pilgrimage to its Netanya branch, Ikea’s only store in Israel) is a home furnishings extravaganza of theme park proportions. You don’t just visit […]

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