Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southside Park Cohousing, D'Marie now shares three meals a week in a central dining hall with 65 other residents of all ages. Her apartment, like the others, looks out over a common lawn, gardens and playground. Here, there's always someone to talk to. When she needs help moving a couch or changing the battery in a smoke detector, neighbors are ready to assist. In return, she hems their clothes or makes applesauce for them from the community orchard. "I'm very comfortable here," she says...
Some people have found a way to forgive: even parents who lost their beloved children; even kids who won't ever walk again, or speak clearly, or grow old together with a sister who died on the school lawn. But other survivors are still on a journey, through dark places of anger and suspicion, aimed at a government they fear wants to cover up the misjudgments of police; at a school that wants to shift blame; at the killers' parents, who have stated their regrets in written statements issued through their lawyers but who still aren't saying much...
...didn't pity them much - they should have known by now that he who stands apart soon finds a broom put in his hand. (Even if it's to sweep the lawn, which I actually witnessed yesterday.) So I happily marched off to the rasslin'. Did I mention I was getting better at this place...
...meantime, Clemmons is taken with the idea that a hobbyist like herself might somehow scoop all the pyramid experts. "Other research expeditions had a bunch of men pushing and pulling," she says. "Mine will be me and my girlfriends with kites and a pack of beer, sitting in lawn chairs, waiting for the wind to kick...
...family work around his absence by scheduling separate time for him and his wife, time for him and his daughter and time for family activities. He praises "outsourcing"--hiring people to do most things that would limit his ability to spend time with his family, like housecleaning, lawn mowing and snow shoveling. The key to keeping involved in your children's lives, says Tom, is never letting work get in the way of your participation. He tells stories of flying home to Chicago one night and flying back the next morning in time for work, all so he could attend...