Circa 1992 my family took a vacation to the American Southwest, an awe-inspiring landscape of geologic majesty. Unfortunately, in order to witness this majesty, you have to do a lot of […]

  Also featured on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annelia-alex/when-rockets-come-to-israel_b_5587484.html This is what it’s like in Israel when there is a rocket attack. I’m doing whatever I’m doing—folding laundry, unwrapping a sandwich, crossing the street—when […]

My favorite giant sloth can be found in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. It was a Saturday in February and I was in a grouchy, I’ll-never-find-love kind of mood. […]