Wow, just two entries and I am excited to read more. I wish you'd had a different catalyst for writing and blogging, but what you write is so funny and honest.
Your writing is brilliant! I love the way you use your sense of humor to deal with this very serious subject, and I'm guessing that your sense of humor really helped you to cope.
Adding you to my blogroll, and I can't wait to read more.
I am, of course, neither sad, nor heroic nor particularly victimized. What I am is an "ordinary Joe" who was seriously injured six years ago in a suicide bombing while waiting for a bus at the Machane Yehuda open air market in Jerusalem.
Ever since I learned how to write, writing has served as a sort of therapy for me. In the months and years after the bombing, I did an enormous amount of writing. What I was thinking. What I was feeling. How the world reacted to me. How my bombed-out self reacted to the world. Some of the articles were sent to friends and relatives via email lists. Many more of them just sat on my computer. I always meant to do something with them.
Of course, I never got around to it.
This year, I promised myself that I would, at last do something. And since blogging is the best way to do something without having to do all that much (no publishers, no rejections, no work apart from editing), I decided that this was the way to go.
Please comment. I am putting these out so that people will read them. Let me know that you are reading.
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Wow, just two entries and I am excited to read more. I wish you'd had a different catalyst for writing and blogging, but what you write is so funny and honest.
Hi Gila,
Your writing is brilliant! I love the way you use your sense of humor to deal with this very serious subject, and I'm guessing that your sense of humor really helped you to cope.
Adding you to my blogroll, and I can't wait to read more.
Thank you. People, including me, need to read essays like yours to remember each of the numbers we hear on the news is a person with a story.
Please keep writing for us.
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