Becky Blab

–Lifeguards at the pool looking stereotypially stud-ish with sunglassed eyes.
–A black homeless drag queen, standing on the street talking to herself and begging for change.
–Kids with more toys than they could play with in three lifetimes.

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How appropriate that my Jewish mother sent me this. I thought it was hilarious & timely, since I’m coming to terms with certain issues related to the theme of kvetching.
I checked out her son’s article in HuffPost, Frame It With Gratitude:
“One way to describe your experience would be to say, ‘This is so annoying I [...]

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I wanted to share Tracy and Toru’s touching story in Asian Jewish Life, called “Learning to Speak: A cross-cultural love story.” She tells several instances that illustrate the strong impact that her husband’s sweetly skewed words have had on her.

These are the tales I usually tell when people ask if it’s hard to be married to a man whose native [...]

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Recently, I keep starting out my posts with numbers. Perhaps it helps me to establish the landmarks, to measure my success on this uncharted path. For me, these three years are the longest ever time that I’ve been settled in one place since I graduated from high school in 1999. I’m discounting the four years [...]

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Kelly shares an experience of sexual harrassment and culture-shock while living in Cairo:
It took a long time for me to process that culture shock–perhaps I am still–but one thing I know is this: The conversation is dynamic between an individual and her environment and just as it would be absolutely absurd to respond in a conversation [...]

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