Tuesday Jul 28, 2009
Posted by Channie and Becca Greenberg
Its 2:30 a.m. right now, six and a half hours before I have to be at the Central Bus Station to board a bus for a sherut leumi (national service) seminar. I wasn't planning on writing a blog when sleep was of the essence, but life rarely goes how I plan it. That's why I stopped - planning, that is.
I was never one for huge plans. I never sat down and wrote about what I wanted to do in the future, and where I saw myself in ten years. I did have rough idea of how life was going to unfold. I was going to finish elementary school and get rainbow braces and platform shoes. I was going to get my driver's license at sixteen, and then a car for my birthday. I was going to have two sons who shared a room and slept on a bunk bed. I would kiss them goodnight, first the son on the higher bunk, and then I would bend down and kiss the boy on the lower bunk.
Needless to say, asides from the braces, life hasn't gone according to plan. And I'm perfectly fine with that. The twists and turns of life have offered me the chance to learn that everything is for the good, even if it's hard to see at first.
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About this blog
 She Said: She Said
Becca Greenberg is an enterprising young adult and recent ulpanah [Hebrew day school] graduate. When not fulfilling her Shirut Leumi obligations, Becca can be found reading, writing, and making up excuses for missing her driving lessons. Becca spins words when not taking responsibility for her younger siblings' music or for other behaviors that might be considered concomitant to early adulthood. Her work has appeared on Chabad.org, on "Blonds Have More Fun," and on the refrigerator.
Former JPost Old/New World Discourse blogger, Channie Greenberg, writes for an array of Jewish-interest, parenting, and speculative fiction venues, worldwide. Besides writing a column for the British continuum parenting magazine, The Mother Magazine, critiquing poetry and fiction for the literary 'zine Sotto Voce, and ghostwriting college textbooks, she spends her time feeding her imaginary hedgehogs and helping single words, like "twaddle" and like "balderdash," find shidduchim
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Gabriella, Israel: You forgot to add a small, yet relevant detail: The cats in the Rova love you so much, that you can't take a single step without them seeking you out. It's gotten so that you have to carry a lint roller with you at all times.
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