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Drafting Life is my blog. I write posts about life, writing, travelling, parenting, books and shows.
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A Letter to my Son on his 10th Birthday
Read this on galpod.com. My son turned ten last Saturday but, seeing as it was half-term and a dear friend hauled my kids and me to the...

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Oct 29, 20192 min read


On Violence and Literature
Read this on galpod.com. In my creative writing course, we did an exercise. Last week, we created a character. This week, we had to...

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Oct 15, 20192 min read


Self Examination
Read this on galpod.com. It's Yom Kippur today. In Israel, that means no work, no cars or buses on the roads except for emergencies, no...

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Oct 9, 20192 min read


End of September Reflections
Read this on galpod.com. It's been an interesting month. I'll jump right in with going over the goals I set for myself for September, and...

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Oct 2, 20193 min read


On Sick Days and Beginnings
Read this on galpod.com. Well, the new school year is finally getting into gear. This week was almost routine in terms of clubs, except...

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Sep 27, 20193 min read


The Teachers in Our Lives
Read this on galpod.com. My kids started a new school year, so, naturally, I've been thinking a lot lately about teachers. It's...

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Sep 16, 20192 min read


New Year, New Concrete Goals
Read this on galpod.com. For me, the school year is much more significant than the calendar year. It has to do with a lot of things,...

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Sep 9, 20193 min read


Retrospect Travel Log: Koh Samui and Leaving Your Comfort Zone Far Behind
Read this on galpod.com. We topped up our annual adventure with a week of relaxing in one of Thailand's renown beaches. We did this...

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Aug 19, 20192 min read


Retrospect Travel Log: Chiang Mai
Read this on galpod.com. Bangkok gave us a taste of how different the Thai culture is from what we're used to. Chiang Mai did that, too,...

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Aug 16, 20193 min read


Retrospect Travel Log: Bangkok
Read this on galpod.com. So, our annual family vacation this year was to Thailand! We were super excited (and, in my case, super anxious)...

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Aug 12, 20193 min read


On Vacation
Read this on galpod.com. Right. Tomorrow we're off on our annual family vacation, a tradition that is almost a year old. I've been...

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Jul 26, 20191 min read


On Choices and Mistakes
Read this on galpod.com. Last night, my partner and I went to see the premiere of a documentary called The Great Hack at the Science...

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Jul 17, 20193 min read


When to Let Go of Systems
Read this on galpod.com. I started keeping a notebook with me a little over a year ago. I read about bullet journals and wanted to try it...

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Jul 11, 20192 min read


Book Review - The War of Art
Read this on galpod.com. I've wanted to read this book for a while now. People talk about how amazing it is and how it changed how they...

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Jul 5, 20193 min read


End of June Reflections
Read this on galpod.com. I read quite a few books in Hebrew over the last month. I started both because my mom was here and brought me...

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Jul 1, 20192 min read


Resistance and Forms of Art
Read this on galpod.com. I've just finished The War of Art. I'll write a review later this week, but for now, I wanted to talk about a...

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Jun 24, 20192 min read


The Impossible Paradox of Fear
Read this on galpod.com. So, the album recording phase is done, and we're heading into the final stretch of mixing. We started talking...

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Jun 20, 20192 min read


Book Review - The Silence of the Girls
Read this on galpod.com. Another book from our reading group, this one I managed to finish on time for last week's meeting. It's a...

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Jun 17, 20192 min read


A Letter to my Daughter on Her 8th Birthday
Read this on galpod.com. My Love, How you've grown this last year. You kept dancing and even increased the number of hours. We noticed,...

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Jun 11, 20192 min read


Book Review - Inferior
Read this on galpod.com. It took me almost two months to finish this book by Angela Saini. Partly because I read super slow in English...

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Jun 7, 20192 min read
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