So my healing course began yesterday evening. It was bizarre and fascinating. The first thing that's bizarre is the teacher. A haredi ("ultra-Orthodox") lady from Meah Shaarim who's been in the business ten years, full head covering, black clothes...

Today I ran into a good friend at the baby group, who happened to be "job coaching" one of the Down's Syndrome girls she works with in sherut leumi in cooking in the Eliya kitchen. (Volunteering to help someone volunteer!) We spoke very briefly about...

Because things happen so fast around here and most of them have been on the annoying scale, I'm leaving the details for my family e-mail updates. The highlights are that Hallel's intraocular pressure has been too high and not responding to treatment;...

Dear Mrs. Levy, We at the Courts on High have deemed it necessary to send you the enclosed list of prayers we have received from you over the past few years. Please note that the enclosed list is only a representative sample, randomly selected; all...

So it's been kinda hard to bring myself to post. Because every time I set out on something it turns into an irritated (and irritating) rant of self-pity, more or less poetic. Nothing is particularly wrong, it's just the usual swimming upstream and...