Mae Travels

Today was my first hike with the International Neighbors Hiking Group. We started at the church on Webster Church Road, walked to Zeeb Road,...

New countertops, tile backsplashes, kitchen sink, stove, dishwasher, and bathroom faucets are virtually complete after almost two weeks of w...

My bookclub recently discussed The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, which turns on imagined alternate history of the early 1940s. In th...

I just bought an old edition of this Kipling classic with a few illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The print quality is not high, but I like h...

We've had a lot of rain this week, and just a few leaves are beginning to turn red. With the poet people say that April is the cruelest ...

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...