Saturday, May 20 - Shabat shalom! I’m home from the international church that I attend on Saturday mornings, Narkis Street Congregation. And today I met a member there who grew up in Stockton, spent 7 years nursing his mother in Modesto, and whose sister worked at Emmanuel Hospital in Turlock for years! He asked about the cheese company too; he’s eaten lunch there. What a small world...

This blog is going to be a simple smögåsbord of pictures of things I do and the people I share life with here in Jerusalem. I hope you enjoy them!

Be’vakasha!






Photos: 1. me and a Jewish woman, Sarah, in her freshly painted living room 2. painting the “nicotine house!” Compare the yellowish wall with the cleaner streaks where the smokey nicotine has been wiped away--gross! And then there is me, painting white over the whole thing. It has been 20 years since these rooms were painted, and the whole family smokes. Imagine the layer of crud we had to deal with! 3. me with two of the “nicotine” family, Bella and Tal 4. me painting a lovely pink bedroom! 5. me with the “pink” family (I didn’t get their names)