Posted in Blog on Jul 31st, 2011
The Transition Town movement syncs perfectly with the cooperative business model: tapping synergies to meet the need for better food, nutrition housing and health care that “the market” has overlooked.
Posted in Blog on Jul 1st, 2010
I don’t know anything about children. I often feel incompetent and that I miss the point. As one of the youngest in my family, I wasn’t around younger children until I started baby sitting as a teenager, the first job I ever hated. Failing as a 13-year-old, assigned to keep the third and fourth graders [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 29th, 2010
The bitter, divisive politics that has swept this country threatens our great democracy. When we give into the corrosive, pervasive feelings of fear and scarcity, we sink into despair. We must counteract this trend by rebuilding our country, neighborhood-by-neighborhood. Join the with the millions who are on the case. Get off the couch, put down [...]
Posted in Blog on Feb 22nd, 2010
Working in a chilly corporate environment, with clear distinctions between the people that mattered and the people that didn’t, I came down with that dreaded child hood disease: the cooties. Having left my husband, whom I once dearly loved and thought would be my life partner, I entered the social scene as a 50-something. It’s [...]
Posted in Blog on Dec 9th, 2009
Traveling southbound on the Pulaski bus, I was surprised to find a Lake Streeter sitting next to me. As we talked, I looked up and saw about six other Lake Streeters on the same bus. I wanted to finish the conversation and to greet my other friends as well. Then I woke up. Pulaski Road, [...]
Posted in Blog on May 10th, 2009
You should have been there. Wednesday’s morning news reported that when schools close for the swine flu, some children miss out on their only meal of the day. The story put me closer to the edge than I realized. The weepy spell in the car on the way into work wasn’t enough. I wish I [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 19th, 2009
Right now is the most fertile time for positive change that the world has seen in a very long time. Freshly plowed fields, disguised as devastated neighborhoods lay before us, waiting for the seeds of new ideas. There are many hopeful signs, even in the midst of anxiety. If the imploding economy makes you nervous, [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 13th, 2009
Some of the calls that come in to the office are designed to prey upon gullible, desperate people. Last week’s call: “Hello! We have grant money available for small businesses…” is common. Today it was affordable, pay-as-you-go insurance. I don’t wait to hear the rest. Pity anyone falling for these ploys. In the 1950′s, the rural [...]