I'm at the forest preserve where I walk my dog. I've dropped my phone, and I'm trying to get it back into the pocket so I can leash the dog and get moving. A voice interrupts me, startling me a bit, since I hardly ever see people here, much less talk to them. An elderly... Continue Reading →
Life Moves Pretty Fast Around Here
If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.--Ferris Bueller's Day Off. My husband's joblessness ended very quickly. Within hours of posting his resume on the magical computer programmer job-finding site, he had calls about three different jobs. He fielded innumerable calls about the positions, and on Tuesday of... Continue Reading →
Taking the Long Way
So that happened. For the first 24 hours that followed our layoffs from our respective jobs, my husband and I could only look at each other and shake our heads. Clearly, our lives were on a path we were not supposed to be on, and our course has been changed. Radically. I can't find another... Continue Reading →
Meg Currell 