New technologies and medicines are years away; music is here and now.

Current events have a way of affecting all aspects of Israeli life, even my mom’s. She’s not cognizant of what happens outside the walls...

It is amazing how small our worlds can shrink when we are ill—physically, emotionally, even intellectually.

If you had asked me how life was yesterday, I would have written about the quiet day we had in paradise. Mom and I sang songs, drank...