What I missed, every day, yearned for, actually, was a British-style pork sausage. I dreamt of them. At least I think it was sausages I saw in my dreams.
Tag: the French in Tel Aviv
Telling Gloria
She said she’d visited my father’s grave and told him my news. He was, I understand, thrilled by it.
The beach
I have measured out my life in expensive hotels, it seems, and I gauge my tan in types of honey. I am now millefiori, and aspire to castagna.
Last day at the ulpan
She danced with Alberto, I don’t know why, the joy and sadness of the occasion, I suppose.
A self-saucing pudding
Nathan, whose greatest fear is that he’ll develop a resistance to Botox, returned from Frankfurt with the face of an inexpressive eight year old.
A write-off
I discover that doing nothing is more fun than having nothing to do
Ulpanation
She looked disgusted, as if I’d admitted to a taste for rat, or beetroot, or something.
