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Relationships First. Housing Second.
What If Your Tribe Enjoyed Your Sense of Humor?
What if they were fun, witty, and available—like the Golden Girls or Friends? Who doesn’t want that?
A Better Way to Live Together
A Better Way to Live Together. We all want to be seen, heard, and supported.
The Nightmare
Drama Princess at the Laundromat
Watching her, I couldn’t help but think: if ours were a community that held one another up, she wouldn’t be in that laundromat on a dark Sunday evening.
Better alternatives to growing old and parenting
Flowers on the table
“We’ve got your back” beats “It’s just us”
Photo by Thao Phan T. Phuong on Unsplash
The shutdown confirms that we are on our own
Help each other | Terry Edlin
That time I was
Racism is a virus. We are the vaccine.
Brokenhearted white privilege in a broken country in a broken world
Thirsty, struggling guy on Montrose Avenue welcomes water from a stranger.
Asking your opinion
Woman explaining project with Post-it Notes
If Congress won’t fix our housing crisis we must
Toy plastic houses in a row
Developing group living homes
People eating together
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The good life: more fun, better housing
Toasting with friends
Are you hosting Thanksgiving this year?
Thanksgiving is an important holiday. For those who don’t have functional families, joining a quasi-family could work.
Starbucks Child Care Center
Proud kitten mama - a Demeter woman
Praise for CTA bus drivers and all employees
Photo by Jonathan J. Castellon on Unsplash
Single mom’s time crunch
I wept when I bought my MAC
Litter - a sign of our tragic pathology
The young children’s father shielded them from my judgements about littering.
Mr. McGoo type old veteran
Confused, old veteran