Cold Cockles

Although we have experienced unseasonably warm temperatures this January here in Israel, it gets cold when the sun goes down. The buildings, apartments, and homes are built with concrete, stone, and tile. Often it is colder inside than out. It is hard to keep our apartment warm in the evening without ratcheting up an expensive gas…

Narcissus. In. January.

Much of the known world in the USA is in a deep freeze. My southern home in the states, Texas, is buried under the winter spell of ice. This is the fountain in our community. A friend posted this on FaceBook. He aptly titled this photo, “Narnia.” The extremely cold weather is very unusual for…

Blue Moon

Last night, New Year’s eve’s blue moon just wasn’t blue…

New Blog…

New Blog up… yep! not post, but blog… “blessings from zion.”

Confession: My Messy Little Secret…

… is I live in organized chaos, and I don’t even want to know the psychological or psychiatric reasons for those, like me, that are very neat, clean, and organized on the surface… But just below the facade resides very messy drawers, cabinets, closets.. They look, well, like this… As I remember, my parents were…