Recharging Batteries

As sick and tired of my political ranting as you may be... I am way beyond sick.  It doesn't matter, wrong, right or somewhere in between... I simply don't like the way I feel before, during or after I've finished with one of those rants.  I feel like it is seriously making me a not nice person.

Writing has always been a very enjoyable process for me, and most of what you read here on treppenwitz has rushed so fast and effortlessly from brain to fingertips that I'm usually left with an almost feverish sense of gratitude that  it looks on the screen pretty much the way it looked in my imagination. 

Making brain pictures into word pictures has always been enjoyable for me... and I am blessed beyond measure that there are people out there who stop by on a regular basis to see what fell out of my head.  But lately the brain pictures have been ugly and the resulting posts have been anything but enjoyable. 

Writing about life in Israel, by definition, is bound to have some political content.  But there has been way too much politics here on treppenwitz and not enough life.  That goes for my real life as well.

I need to decompress a little and rediscover my 'daddy-blogger' place.

So I am going to take a few days with my family (yes, we have the big kids back safe and sound from America), and leave you in the capable hands of some writers I read.  I'm sure I'll do this again in a few months so if I didn't ask you to pinch hit for me... there's always next time. 

I'll leave it to the guest bloggers to introduce themselves, although you might recognize them from the comment board here.  In addition, I'll also try to repost an entry or three from the archives while I'm gone... a 'Best of Treppenwitz' sort of thing (ego?  what ego???).

I'll be back here later in the week.  Play nice with the guest bloggers.