It has been a week. I can’t believe how slow the time goes when one is stuck at home and does pretty much nothing. My birthday came and went, and due to the new circumstances, we couldn’t get together as we do every year. Now by the end of the week, the rain comes, and […]
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Ariela Zucker
February 27 – Daily Stuff
by Ariela Zucker 6:00 am. Like every morning, I stand in front of the big kitchen window and wait for the water to boil. It takes about five minutes for the electric glass kettle to hum, then gurgle, then big bubbles explode against the glass, then quiet. In the meantime, I look at the neighboring houses […]
February 17 – I Exist
The other day I discovered that a cyber family, much like a real one, acquires overtime unique lifelike qualities. It happened when I found in my inbox letters from people suggesting that I will update, fix, resolve duplicates, and respond to birthdays. I don’t know them; I don’t believe we ever met. My careful and […]
January 13 – You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
Every day in the winter, when I make the fire in our woodstove, I see it as a reminder that no matter how old, I can learn new skills. I could have identified other, perhaps more respected skills I acquired over the past years. Like becoming a writer in a language other than my native […]
December 9 – Snow Day Chronicles
by Ariela Zucker “Up to a foot of snow,” the smug-looking weatherman announces on the six o’clock news. “Thirty million Americans in the path of the storm,” numbers are always a convincing tool in scare tactics. “More than six states,” he continues to plant the seeds of doom. “Stay in if you do not have […]
October 23 – Mortality Check
by Ariela Zucker Nine o’clock at night and all is quiet. I doze in my hospital bed when suddenly the monitor I am hooked to with many leads starts flashing an angry red. Startled I look up at the heartbeat counter, it shows a big red 0. Before I manage to move, five people show […]