Somewhere along the line I realized this is not going away, and that struggling to pay the utilities is a monthly reality with no end in sight. Read more »
Last night, I lovingly held a rooster, thanked him for his short stay, and efficiently made the cut that ended his life. I’ve never done that. I’ve never killed an animal. Read more »
I’m at a café right now that’s across the street from a vacant office building. The low-slung seventies-contemporary structure used to house our family dentist’s business. Read more »
Building the peer-to-peer cities of tomorrow will require more than apps and data visualizations. We must apply the hacker ethos to how we organize, collaborate, and tell the stories of our cities. Read more »
A community apartment building in the Bronx offers parenting workshops, after-school programs, counseling, job training, summer camp and more. The catch? You have to be a grandparent raising a grandchild to live here. Read more »
An interview with Chicago author Megan Stielstra about Times Are Tough All Over, her story and website that documents how people are coping and making ends meet during the recession. Read more »
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