We found out over the phone, while on vacation. The housesitter called us to tell us that he was at the animal hospital back home with our cat, Smokey. And then he put the vet on the line. We heard about age-related kidney disease, complete renal failure. We learned that medication and intravenous fluids might help keep him alive another month—or maybe just another week.
We see Rabbi X. walking down the streets of our small Southern city, and we see others staring at him. He wears the outfit of…
The Maccabees didn’t stand a chance against the catalogs that began to appear in in mid-November. Our children, Jonah and Maia, began to look through…
A friend of mine just left her husband. She told me that she had been unhappy in the marriage for a long time but couldn’t…