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 Jan 27th, 2010
As the economy collapses before our eyes, incidents of people coming unglued are becoming more commonplace. Two men, not completely in their right minds on CTA buses last week, illustrate how some people are becoming unraveled. The first guy argued with the driver over his fare. When I realized that twenty cents was the difference [...]
Two couples, one twenty years older than the other, bought a large vintage home on Chicago’s south side, near the University of Chicago, in the 1970′s. Six adults combined resources and made a commitment to live graciously and harmoniously together. Sometimes the harmonious part was a stretch. Over dinner in March 2003, the owners described [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 5th, 2009
We thrive on healthy human contact, or shrivel for lack of it. Our social connection with each other has deteriorated to the point that, on the street, eye contact with others has become the exception rather than the norm. The eye contact taboo probably began when Ronald Reagan emptied the mental hospitals during his first [...]