It is said that a predictor of happiness and longevity as we age is maintaining strong friendships. Read More

Our country’s response of togetherness and patriotism in the immediate aftermath of the terrorists bring down the Twin Towers with airplanes was the last time I remembered feeling a sense of unity in our country. Read More

Sadly, many people who need care and supervision end up as part of the homeless population living in the streets. Read More

I’m one of those people who gets a task 95% completed and decides it is good enough. Read More

I was raised in Michigan during the era when Walter Reuther advocated for workers’ rights, universal health care, public education, and affordable housing and the UAW was seen as a sacred, progressive union in my home. He and George Meany cofounded the AFL-CIO in 1955. Unions brought prosperity to middle class families, many of whom… Read More

The closest I can come to feeling imprisoned is how the pandemic impacted my freedom starting in March, 2020. Read More

Imagine my shock as a kid when I saw my parents throw a set of luggage into the rising waters flooding our basement. Read More

In 1967, I left my hometown in Michigan to move to Chicago with Fred, who would be starting medical school. Before I moved, I received several dire warnings from the women in my family. My great-aunt Sarah shared that she had read several cases in The Jewish Daily Forward’s “A Bintel Brief” about women who… Read More

Now wild fires are added to the list of climate change based disasters, which may have been avoidable if only Gore had become president … and if only we had listened. Read More

They say man plans and God laughs. On the big day, it rained steadily from sun up to midnight. Read More