Tamping anxiety down into my hip pocket, I tried not to think about it, How bad could it be? If they let the public sign up it must be safe, though the list of health warnings on the ticketing [Read more...]
I've never been buzzed by a hummingbird before. Or two or five. As if in a dare, they darted fearless, while I wrote at my canyon top perch in the midst of their breakfast. Cocooned by a radiant [Read more...]
Poseidon simmered hot, enraged at the arrogant bragging of the King of Jaffa’s wife. She crowed vain that their daughter Andromeda’s beauty eclipsed all others, even Poseidon’s lovely Sea [Read more...]
The young bedouin boy, scrambled across the rocky cliff face minding his own business, while searching for his goat. What he discovered in 1947 would rock the modern world of biblical scholars as one [Read more...]
Greed, vengeance, murder, suicide, Enough to fill an epic Hollywood style drama. Tragic sites, we headed for two more of Herod the Great’s building marvels. We snaked out of Jerusalem toward the [Read more...]
“Why are we stopping in the middle of nowhere for a nothing view?” I sighed after a long day of sightseeing. Devoid of tourists, in a desolate area, our bus stopped lonely on the side of a narrow [Read more...]
Towering above ancient Jerusalem, perched on the place of most holy significance, the Temple Mount stretches high over the minions. But centuries before a bustling city bloomed or a temple idea [Read more...]
I hate three things: The cold, anything creepy, anything scary. But I do so love an adventure. Not one to shrink from challenges, I thrive on new experiences and new places. So when [Read more...]
Brash Peter, chest pumped full, head raised lofty, So sure of his courage. So sure of his loyalty Even if all the rest of them fall away, even if I have to die with you, I am stronger than [Read more...]
I rubber-necked as we whizzed by several small ski shops. Whaaat?? Snow skiing in Israel? Wouldn’t you just love to know who the first Israelite skier was? I picture a turbaned man with robes [Read more...]