Trying To Stay On Top of The World

vol#8 This week's blog is a glimpse into my marriage.  I don't know how many of you know but we are celebrating 25 years this week. A True Milestone and we're so grateful to have reached the silver. It wasn't always clear that we would reach this milestone.   Like any marriage, we have our ups we have our downs, and we even have Big Downs. Even now reaching this Milestone we're still not the perfect couple.                         There is a very important lesson though that I learned early on and I want to share it with you. Early in our marriage, We had this big big disagreement. It seems trivial but we actually needed third-party intervention. and since then our marriage has been on a different level.  I am a super duper believer in the concept of breathing. My husband? Not so much. I mean obviously, he likes to breathe because the alternative is not so great, but at night he likes to be buried in hi...

vol: #7 I am super excited about today's blog! And the truth is that I didn't even know what I was going to be writing about until I started writing in my journal. I have always written. I have always gained clarity, perspective,  awareness, and peace of mind by writing. When I was 10 my journal/diary entries went something like this: "I can't stand my parents. I hate my teacher and my brother is an idiot". In my teens, my entries were: "oh my Gd he's so cute! I hope he notices me. Oh my Gd he noticed me! My parents are totally not cool and my brother thinks he knows everything."  Later when I came to Israel it was all about my adventures in Israel and when I had to return my entries were about how sad I was that I was not in Israel. Thankfully I got married and had children and now live in Israel and my life as well as my journal entries were focused on my family and the dailies. In the last 10 years or so my journaling has become focused to the poi...