Coronavirus Diaries

I guess I should be delighted that my kind spouse is beloved by my family, but I must admit that I am also begrudging him.

Michel de Montaigne wrote in his essay On Solitude that when Socrates was told that someone did not have fun on his journey, the great Greek philosopher said,” Of course he didn’t, he brought along himself.” 

For an hour I roamed the winding roads alongside sheep and hens, cypress trees and oleanders. 

We parted ways, and I continued to wander around the streets. It was as if there was nothing really concrete that had emerged from that meeting.

Let me just remind you dear reader that the word "patriot" comes from the Latin “Patria,” which means homeland. You can love your homeland and detest the leaders.

In America, reincarnation is a practice you perform before you die. 

During our modern era, people believe they know everything, but that is rarely the case.

“Now there is a feeling of a national awakening, a real one. If you think this is what you really feel, then ok, let’s go. It’s important," Ravid said about my desire to go to the anti-government protests.

What’s particularly difficult is the fact that I am locked inside Israel.

“So how is it in Israel,” my friends from London ask me. And I answer that I have been living outside Israel for the past 13 years.