Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other morning a very anxious woman called an office in downtown Chicago with a request that any mother could understand. "I want to get him out of the house," she said. "He's a nice boy. A doctor. But he's 38, for goodness' sake." The answer, of course, is to find that nice doctor a bride. And that is exactly what Heather Stern is in business to do: she is a matchmaker, '80s style...
Admittedly, this mother's request was unusual. But Stern's seven-year-old Chicago company, Personal Profiles, takes most problems to its bosom in its quest to find a spouse for each of its 1,650 clients, ranging from architects and artists to lawyers and engineers. This is not your matchmaker of old, Yente of Fiddler on the Roof or the garrulous busybody of Crossing Delancey, the sort of woman who knows her potential lovebirds like a good breeder knows horseflesh. Stern, who is a svelte 39, says her matchmaking is far more sophisticated and scientific; more, she says, like...
Homeward Bound also co-sponsored the city Hunger/Homeless Awareness Week last week, and members ran a free showing of "God Bless the Child" to about 35 people at the Cambridge public library. The movie traced the odyssey of a mother and daughter who lose their home, then move from shelter to shelter, and finally must separate. By the end, most of the audience was in tears...
Before the screening, Marilyn Ray, a former homeless mother, told the crowd about the the difficulites of raising children without a home. "How do you discipline children when you have nothing to take away from them?" she asked. "You can never tell them to go to their room...
...family train. Across the aisle three children were playing Musical Laps on various amply lapped mother-like figures who chatted away, absentmindedly patting the playing children. Across from them were two fifteen-year-old skateboard kids, whose disdainful sneers showed how much they secretly missed playing on Mommy's lap. A skull-painted board with wheels is a lousy substitute...