Love is the Healthiest Habit(at) for All

In her NY Times article, writer Jane Brody finds out about the power of love two years after her husband’s death. We can’t begin to know what their 44-year marriage was like, nor does she divulge much, though through her missing him we gather they had built a lifetime of good memories together. Nowadays, it’s easy to mock monogamy, marriage or commitment as pedestrian and oh so 1950s. Avoid the reality at your own peril; love, it turns out, is the...

Spider Magic and Weaving Words

This past week, I saved a baby spider in the shower and was visited late at night by another larger variety when it crawled over my hands as I typed at the computer.  Once upon a time, these eight -legged creatures inspired a disproportionate amount of fear, until I came face to face with creatures as big as my palm, as black as the night sky, and as venomous as death. That’s because life in the hills of the Galilee, Israel – where I lived from...