Word: hickeys
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...daily two hours of religious observance around a more typical--or perhaps retro, given the large size of many of their families--existence. Opus' sureties provide a spiritual grounding to life's everyday chaos and ambiguities. While she was raising seven children in the anything-goes 1970s, says Cathy Hickey of Larchmont, N.Y., Opus gave her "an underlying stream of peace and joy." Members bring a pious concentration to jobs that might otherwise be done less ethically or carefully. Heil, the Columbia student, says Opus "helps your whole life melt into this 24/7 conversation with...
...writers of NBC's My Name Is Earl likewise claim to feel little pressure to save a multibillion-dollar business. They just want to get the smoking episode done. In it, Earl Hickey (Jason Lee)--a ne'er-do-well trying to make amends to everyone he has ever wronged--resolves to quit cigarettes. NBC executives have asked for rewrites to make Earl more "active." Shooting is due to start in two days, so the staff of a dozen settles into comfy chairs in the writers' room, downs bottled water and bats around the problem: How can someone actively...
before they even spoke with a real estate agent, an unlikely buyer emerged: Roger Hickey, 43, the youngest of their five children. "It had never entered my mind to sell the house to one of my children," says Jack, 78, "but Roger had given it a lot of thought...
...vice chairwoman of the A.B.A.'s committee on psychological and emotional issues of estate planning. "You don't want the kids happily moved in while you are unhappily moved out." Make sure you aren't selling or gifting the house to a child who can't afford it. (Jack Hickey made Roger prove that he had sufficient income.) And, says Jennifer Jordan McCall, co-chairwoman of the trusts and estates department at Pillsbury Winthrop, you shouldn't attach strings. If you can't bear to see your kids redecorate, the transaction is probably doomed...
When the arrangement works, it can be a sweet deal for many families. The next generation is taking notice: Roger Hickey's daughter Irene, 13, has already told her dad that she wants the house someday...