Posted in Blog on Sep 1st, 2011
How do we empower ourselves, the middle class, and extend a hand to those who have fallen from that rung, or never reached it? Our economic system is rusted shut. Done in by greed and corruption. It is beyond obvious that creative, robust remedies won’t be coming from our federal, state or municipal governments any time [...]
Posted in Blog on Aug 20th, 2011
You will find affordable, nutritious food outside of what you cook yourself, next to that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: in your imagination. Fast food is especially abysmal and nutritionally bankrupt. Although I have a guilty affection for junk food, most of it does not taste good and wrecks havoc on [...]
Posted in Blog on Aug 14th, 2011
The Law of Unintended Consequences is, by definition, unpredictable. The abject failure of our current economic and political system to provide life’s basic necessities, while lavishing the wealthy with every conceivable bauble and privilege, eventually leads to a shift. We’re in for a doozie. This economic and social shift certainly feels Biblical in scope. By [...]
Posted in Blog on Aug 14th, 2011
If ever there was a time for new order of business, it is now. Our economic system, which seemed to work reasonably well, has been corrupted beyond recognition. If you are rich, or have a job with health insurance, enjoy good health, and your retirement plan is intact, you might be okay. For millions of [...]
Cooperatively, we have the potential to relate with each other in a new and supportive ways by remedying the market’s utter failure to provide nourishing food, housing, health care and education, and the care of our most vulnerable populations: the young, the elderly, the disabled and veterans.
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.
How nervous are you? Our polarized politics, and amnesia about prior debt ceilings, prohibits prohibits sane, reasoned debate about taxes, light bulbs (!#?!#) and everything in between. This has many people staring at their own ceiling (if they still have one) when they should be sleeping. Clearly, neither our government, nor the corporations that actually call the [...]
Posted in Blog on Jun 11th, 2010
Everywhere I look, a family or an individual seems to be falling through the cracks, so I usually write about whatever tugs at my heart. My recent alignment with Sound ConneXions, and Sound ConneXions Chicago, whose goal is to support social entrepreneurs engaging in social innovation, gives me the courage to take on a project [...]
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 [...]
An odd twist of circumstances led me to live for two months in a bungalow where I shared a kitchen with two other housing units. A Punjabi Indian couple, completing their residencies at local hospitals, lived on the first floor with their beautiful eight-month-old daughter. An engineer lived in the basement apartment, a refugee from [...]