Almost 55 years ago, my husband of 54 years took one look at a young woman who pushed ahead of him in the cafeteria of the Weizmann Institute and said to himself “This is the one.” …
A student in grade 8 in one of the public schools in India created this drawing in response to his father who claimed his wife does not work. The drawing contains all the tasks his mother performs while she is “not working”. It became the cover poster for the Indian government’s 2021 report on gender equality…
We woke up to a dull morning, after some rain during the night. As I was making our morning salad, the sun came out and a big smile lit my face. I declared, “The sun is out, I am already in a good mood” to which my husband stated “Light cannot measure mood”. That was all I needed as a challenge…
How can each person deal with the layers of complexity and chaos in our global society? We are dealing with a phenomenon that is affecting us globally, however we each live in a different part of the globe, in countries and even regions of countries that are affected somewhat differently, and the leaders of each place choose to deal with the problem and its consequences in different ways…
That was a great novel by one of my favorite writers, John le Carré, but the spy I am talking about was actually a whole nest of spies who came in from the cold and settled in the washing machine of one of our neighbors. The culinary appetite of these spies was very peculiar…
Recently I was surprised to learn that in Israel, in contrast to all other countries around the world, the Rorschach test is still used extensively…