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Having recently crossed the bridge of my seventy-second natal anniversary last month, I am hammering out these words on the laptop from a panoramic window view of Jerusalem’s Old City, where [...]

When warnings of an imminent Iranian air attack on Israel began flooding Israeli media during the evening hours of Saturday, April 13, we braced for impact. The early hours of April 14 were [...]

Part 2 of “A Story of Forgiveness” How do you choose final words to speak across thousands of miles to a former husband on his deathbed? There had not been one word of contact with [...]

Part 1 of “A Story of Forgiveness” The dense dust and sand-mixed scrim hanging from ethereal curtain rods over Jerusalem and all of Israel has lifted, whispering on the western winds [...]

How do I love my neighbor? I have been turning the Rubik’s Cube of my mind in all directions for a solution, and I am still wrestling to progress after almost six weeks back in Israel. When you [...]

It has been over a year since Jerusalem Old City craftsmen, my “Betzalel Team,” completed their construction of my room addition to the tiny 400-square-foot apartment I had called [...]

It was early December of 1965 and the U.S. had entered the Vietnam War. Psychedelic hippie counterculture sought answers to big questions to which the Beatles soon responded with their song, All [...]

The metallic whir of a dusty stand fan creates a whoosh of breezes, mitigating the Jerusalem heat under my canopied pergola. Stately royal lavender and a pink explosion of geraniums live [...]

Intoxicating perfume from lemon blossoms envelops me as I step across the threshold into my garden, a haven of healing and hope during these days of Coronavirus quarantine. Lemons and their [...]

Why are we waiting to savor something ephemeral with excuses like, “I don’t have time,” or “It just isn’t convenient,” or “I am leaving soon, so what’s the point?” This morning, having returned [...]