When I visited Mom this week, I wanted so badly to tell her about the new version of West Side Story. Under different circumstances, we’d...

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

The difficulty of sorting through and parting with my mom's clothes.

One of the residents in Mom’s facility fell last week and broke her arm. Her eye is horribly bruised, and she must now be helped with...

We lost a friend to cancer this week. She was my mother’s age. I visited her a few hours before she died, and it was clear that she had...

It has been one year since my mom was moved to her Alzheimer’s care facility, one year of searing emotional upheavals and adjusting to a...

I got annoyed with Mom today. Not for what she was doing, but because I wanted something from her. I wanted her to pay attention to me....

Each time I walk Mom home from synagogue and see her safely to her door, I am tinged with sadness. I know I’m doing the right thing by...