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Saying Goodbye to Passover
I can’t believe the Passover holiday is already so far behind us. It feels like a wonderful, warm memory. Mom couldn’t be at the Seder...
Miriam Green
Apr 7, 20213 min read
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Bread of Affliction
The holiday of Passover starts this week. But Alzheimer's sufferers will not recognize that Friday night will be different from all other...
Miriam Green
Apr 17, 20193 min read
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Drink, Drink, Drink
It amazes me how easy it is to manipulate Mom by using her Alzheimer’s. I rely on her non-existent memory to help her do things I want...
Miriam Green
Apr 10, 20193 min read
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Testing 1-2-3
I tried to sit in silence, but it was painful to listen to Mom attempting to answer the doctor’s questions. Mom knew she was having...
Miriam Green
Apr 11, 20184 min read
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Incontinence
Passover is a little more than two weeks away, and I am overwhelmingly sad about Mom’s inability to participate in the Seder. I’m...
Miriam Green
Mar 21, 20185 min read
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Check List
Getting ready for Passover is always time consuming and stressful. Not only do we clean the dickens out of our houses, but we use special...
Miriam Green
Apr 5, 20173 min read
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Funny Face
“Mom has been very belligerent this morning,” Daddy told me on the phone. I was on the last leg of my journey to their apartment, having...
Miriam Green
Mar 22, 20175 min read
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Wisdom
As soon as you start measuring good deeds to determine which is greater, which takes priority over the other—you have already entered...
Miriam Green
May 4, 20164 min read
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Why We Live
Those of us with relatively good health take feeling well for granted. When we get sick, no matter how minor the illness, all that...
Miriam Green
Apr 20, 20163 min read
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Grandchildren
“Do you think we made Savta happy?” I asked my daughter, Liora, as we were returning from Netanya. (Savta is the Hebrew word for...
Miriam Green
Apr 13, 20163 min read
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Big Girls Do Cry
All the gates of Heaven are closed except the Gates of Tears. Berachot 32b, Babylonian Talmud The best place to cry is in the shower. You...
Miriam Green
Apr 15, 20154 min read
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My Mother, My Teacher
There it is again. That small pause as I try to retrieve a word. Ah, ah, um, think. What letter does it start with? What are its...
Miriam Green
Apr 1, 20153 min read
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Time
How do we mark the passage of time? Yes, there is the calendar with its cycle of seasons, holidays, and birthdays. And yes, we are by...
Miriam Green
Mar 18, 20154 min read
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Freedom and Strawberries
Passover is a wonderful holiday but it involves extreme changes to routine including switching utensils, closing off cabinets, and buying...
Miriam Green
Apr 23, 20143 min read
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Signs and Wonders...
and a little chicken.... “I hope you don’t feel I’m a nuisance,” she said lightly as we were sitting in synagogue. I might have grumbled...
Miriam Green
Apr 16, 20143 min read
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