I'm working on Part Six of "How Lisa Came to Israel," but it'll take another day or two to complete. The dratted exigencies of making a living again, you know...

The response to this series has been...Wow. Amazing. And totally unexpected. Thank you all so, so much for your thoughtful, warm and intelligent comments, for your emails and for linking to me. I haven't found the time to write back to most of you, but please know that I appreciate your feedback immensely. It encouraged me, it fed my ever-peckish ego, and most of all it inspired me.

You even got me thinking about actually writing a book. (Does that mean that I have to be self-disciplined? Write an outline, organize chapters, do research? Um, yeah).