Author Archives: Michael Shapira

It’s hot in Eilat. Very hot. But Eilat has a natural built in cooling device called the Red Sea. As long as you have the Red Sea within a few meters distance and you can go in as often as you like, life in Eilat can be very pleasant. Important things in Eilat are: aContinue reading “HHHHooooot”

Yesterday i finished reeding David Grossmans novel (i will have to return another time to write the title in English…) in hebrew it’s: שתהיי לי הסכין I was wondering if i was doing it right, i mean finishing a book. It feels like this event should be marked somehow. you cannot finish reading a bookContinue reading “Smell of cigarettes”

All the emails i send and get, and here and there a postcard, and the book i am reading, and the conversations i have with people, in this or that language or in no language. It all flows somewhere in my head, some drop of correspondence blends in with a conversation that flows down aContinue reading “Rain in Bolzano”

Finally some sunshine… Today the weather is really nice after a few days of unclear warm weather during the days and thunder storms in the evenings. And now i have spent one whole week as an au pair. It feels very strange to enter the world of parents, spending time with two little children in theContinue reading “One week in Stuttgart”