What a Miluim Wife Needs on a Tuesday Night

Two worlds at once After 153 days of reserve duty, I turned in my gun and came home. Everyone asks how I’m readjusting. The person in my house who had the harder job is my wife. For five months she lived in two worlds. In the first, life ran as usual: work, errands, dinner, the […]

Abba, Is That You?

A small boy reaches toward the front door of his apartment in Modiin, hoping his soldier father has come home, with a candy platter from Smiles for the Kids on the floor beside him.

When a father goes to war, his whole family goes with him. They just don’t get the uniform. We knocked on the door of a random apartment in Modiin. My son Elliot was with me. He was ten. We were holding a candy platter with a note from people in Boca Raton who wanted to […]