You know the path less taken? Reader, I took it. Life in the Middle East, specifically in Israel, is… interesting. Some might even say life here is fraught. But it is also disconcertingly ordinary. In any event, wherever you go, there you are.
Keep up with the true adventures of my ridiculous expat life in the Middle East, which in many ways might just resemble your own true adventures; we all wrestle with politics, grocery shopping and paying for that stupid parking ticket. We are living in strange times.
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I write about daily life in Israel’s Galilee—funny, sometimes sad, always real—set against the backdrop of one of the most complex and contested places in the world. California native. How did I get here? Long story.