by Abe | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
I’ve been coaching with Ultimate Peace in different ways for years now. A couple highlights from UP’s Ongoing Program stood out as reasons why we’re a special organization – for this region and this moment. As you may know, UP coaches ultimate in about a dozen...
by Abe | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog
When I arrived in Tel Aviv in October, I thought the following three months would play out like this: classes, internship, research, some new casual friends, and an anecdote or two about what I would be studying – “conflict in the Middle East.” It...
by Abe | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
This past weekend, I played in a fun one day hat tournament. There were grizzled veterans and fresh faced newbies, players who have been chasing plastic for 20+ years playing alongside some who have been for fewer than 20 days. These tournaments can bring out some of...
by Abe | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog
I wrote a post after camp last summer about answering the question “how was camp?” I wrote about how impossible of a question that was to answer; I wrote about how the response could not be given in casual conversation and it pained me to continue into anything less...
by Abe | Aug 17, 2014 | Blog
For the past several months, I have been living in Israel. The majority of my time I spent studying abroad with Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI), along with 29 American and Canadian teenagers. While we spent Sunday through Friday morning in school,...
by Abe | Aug 10, 2014 | Blog
We are reminded that change is good – it means growth, renewal, and at least for me, a chance to have an unscripted adventure in my otherwise hyper organized life. There were many changes this year – a change in venue, in the enlarged coaching staff, the...