After Friday's torrential rains, thunderous thunderclaps and occasional hail, along with not one, but three power outages, my Saturday morning walk was especially fresh and green. Here are a few photos:

Where to even begin?! October was so full of events that it felt several weeks longer than its allotted 4 weeks. The month started out relatively calm, but then, wham!

This now-closed, AI-generated art exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art just blew me away, along with my electricity bill. Have a look at the artist statement (or, better, read it in English on the TAMA website, link below). Then zoom in on the lower left corner of the flower image to see the information on energy consumption for this particular display.

I previously wrote a "technical" nostalgia post for my 15th anniversary on my "all things WordPress.com" website, so I'll keep this post short and non-technical. How does one maintain a blogging journey for such a long time? It definitely is a challenge! Over the years I've blogged about nearly all the interests I mention on my About page, including starting a separate blog for a few of those interests.

After a hiatus of nearly 11 years and after taking the WordPress.com Premium + plugins plunge, I decided to reboot my personal blog. Welcome! While I enjoy blogging about the roller coaster ride that is the multi-user install called WordPress.com (and heaven only knows they continue to provide a lifetime of material to blog about), I forgot what a personal blog looks like.

Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman assign the term ‘traumatic invalidation’ to the silence, blame, exclusion and denial Jews worldwide have faced in the wake of the Hamas atrocities

Some things to keep in mind when creating a website for your SMB on WordPress.com.

You've signed up and created your very first WordPress.com website. Congrats, but now what? Two of the biggest challenges new users have when starting out on WordPress.com are choosing a theme and learning the basics of site set up. WordPress.com helps you select an initial theme based on the information you provide about what your site content will be and how comfortable you are in setting up a site, but you aren't locked in to staying with that theme forever.

It only took two and a half months since my last post for a major change to happen to our WordPress.com experience. TPTB (AKA Automattic, WordPress.com's parent company) decided this month that it will make WordPress.com much closer to the core WordPress experience. They first switched several of our site dashboards to the WP Admin view. This caused the Classic Editor to temporarily disappear.

Once you set up your WordPress.com site at some point you'll probably need extra help in finding information or solving an issue. While every new member of the WordPress.com community receives a welcome letter with a link to Learn WordPress, the always free tutorial for beginners, and other helpful resources, many answers can be found quickly by first searching…