Teaching Our Kids Responsibility

So I'm driving east down highway 6 in Houston,Texas at 11pm. I'm looking for a good radio station. I hit the Dalia show. Let's see. Nice music. Sounds cool. I keep it on. A woman calls and asks for the song "Forever Young". She keeps saying that her son is a good person and that she knows him deep...

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Finding Bits of My Soul- Houston, Texas

We meant to leave Israel, see the States,and swing by Houston for a few weeks. We ended up spending two long, relaxing months in Houston; catching up with old friends and catching our breaths. Houston gave us an eclectic taste of city life, tons of time to reflect on what the hell we were actually...

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Teaching Them To Dare

One had on a pink shirt; the other a light blue tank top. they're in their twenties. i don't know their names and never saw their faces. If they were sitting in front of me right now, I wouldn't know it was them. All the same, these faceless, nameless young ladies infuriated me and consumed...

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Voluntary Frugality

It is the dream of many a family to travel the world. It was our dream for a long, long time. We are always asked how we can afford to live as a nomadic family. People assume that we are rich; therefore, we can, but they can't. Well, we're not rich. We never have been. We simply made choices that...

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Painful First Days

Beginnings are always a little tough.The last three weeks before leaving Israel, Kobi and I had a hysterical mountain of work to do. The night before we left, I fell asleep on the couch while Kobi finished up last minute stuff until 4am. Arriving to your around-the-world family adventure exhausted...

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