Allison, at Unsealed Room, celebrates her first year anniversary. I have been reading her from almost the very beginning. She describes her blog as a "window on life in Israel". Read her first post from a year ago, and you will see what I mean.
A brief excerpt:
So you obsessively check CNN and Fox News, compare them to the reports in the Israeli media, and surf the Internet hourly, trying to get a handle on what exactly is going to happen when so you can plan something more than 48 hours ahead of time.Yeah, yeah, I know this seems trivial and bourgeois in comparison to the huge problems caused by the prospect of war, like the economy and investment climate and worse, the indefinite postponement of really confronting the burning Israel-Palestinian conflict in a meaningful way. But trust me, it's not easy: it raises the overall irritability level tremendously.
The calmest people I know are my friends who plant their heads deliberately in the sand and refuse to read a paper or listen to the radio. All they want to talk about is whether they are going to see "Chicago" or "The Hours" first and what costume their kid wants to wear for Purim. I rather envy them. It's not easy being a news junkie.
She and I also have that "Rhode Island girl" bond, which can never be broken.
Thanks for all your hard work, Allison!
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