Mae Travels

Old Bob Dylan has a new album. I can't think of him as aging like the rest of us. In 1989, I went to a Bob Dylan concert in Paris, and h...

Did you say that Walmart pioneered the exploitation of unskilled workers? No? Good. But if you ever give this idea a second thought, I recom...

There's plenty of room for discussion and dissent, but it seems simply antiJewish to stand on the sidewalk outside a Jewish Community Ce...

I feel very lucky today: I'm going to the Bris of a friend's first grandson. I assume that having been in Israel, you know that that...

For a long time, I used this as the photo for my blogger profile. It shows Miriam, Alice, and me trying hats at the old-fashioned hat shop a...

Fairy Doors reveal the presence of urban fairies throughout Ann Arbor . Througout the city, doors into small places are opening up. Roberta...

This is a story of travel to Hawaii, told for my Real Story blog for children who are intrigued by hot lava in a volcano. One of our adventu...

Thank you, Roberta!

The New Look: The Old Look: ... and we do mean old. That old sectional lasted something like 30 years!

I have started a new blog called Mae's Real Stories for Miriam, Alice, and Theo. The blog Mae Travels will have posts about my own trave...

"ISRAEL IS HISTORY. We no longer recognize the State of Israel. There is no way back." -- So writes famous Norwegian author Jostei...

reports: "At 7:15 p.m. Hizbullah resumed the rocket fire on northern Israel. A number of rockets landed in the Migdal Haemek area, an...

Our congressman is John Dingell, one of eight congressmen to vote against a House resolution condemning the Hesbollah attacks on Israel. Acc...

In May, we visited the towns of Migdal HaEmek, Nahalal, and Upper Nazereth (Nazeret Illit). We met people who participate in Partnership 200...

From today's LA Times online: "So, let's certify that Gibson is an anti-Semite, as his critics have charged since he released t...

I have visited France more than any other foreign country, beginning in 1964. French is the only language besides English that I have ever b...

Elaine has created a blog for Theo, who wanted to hear true stories: Real Story Here are two photos that illustrate her real stories. The fi...

The Europeans have an increasingly anti-Israel stance in most of the online news and comment sources that I read. The BBC calls it "the...

Farmers' market stall where I bought spices and posole. In the morning, when I explored the market (actually a reserved part of a city p...

Looking backwards, I especially remember trips to New Mexico, most recently during a cold snap last January. Streams of water in fanciful ou...