About MeThis site is devoted mainly to my fiber hobbies. Although I've dabbled in fiber for most of my life, I found that needlework helped me survive the end of my doctorate and the beginning of motherhood. For you fellow-sufferers (and spouses of sufferers) in grad school, I recommend it as a pleasant and addictive alternative to drugs and therapy.I knit, crochet, spin, tat, do bobbin lace, beadwork, embroidery, needle lace, and circular netting. My mother taught me to knit, crochet, and sew. As for the rest, I'm self-taught. I spin on a Schacht wheel and love nothing better than to produce thread that measures around 16,000 wpi (Friends, this is the sign of a sick mind....). I grow cotton on my balcony and I'm an avid cook, baker of bread and maker of tofu. Personal info: I'm married to a patient microbiologist with his own hobbies and we have a seven-year-old son, Binyamin. I was born in Toronto, Canada, studied at the University of Toronto (B.A. and M.A.) and Harvard (Ph.D. in Second Temple Jewish Literature). I came to Israel on a Lady Davis Fellowship in 1989 and had so much fun (not!--unless you enjoy sleep deprivation and gas masks) during the Gulf War that I never left. I used to work in Dead Sea Scrolls but was lured to high tech, where I work in knowledge management and indexing at NDS Technologies Israel.
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