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 of her care facility, but visiting her yesterday made me realize that there is no escape from the impact of living in Israel, even if you have Alzheimer’s. Israel’s civilian population is under rocket attack from Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. This is in retaliation for a pinpoint execution of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist chief na

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 coffee at our favorite cafe, went grocery shopping, then met my dad for lunch along the cliff top overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The day was warm and sunny. It felt like winter had ended. That was yesterday. This morning, 7:00 am Israel time, my precious grandmother passed away. She was 101-years-old. There were emotionally fraught calls bet