Want to Check Out a Community? Go to the Public Library Whenever my parents traveled, to get to a feel for the local community ” cultural, historical, religious (they’re Jewish), architecture, etc. ” they would always visit the local synagogue(s). Me? I go to the local library. I head there not just to check email...Read More
Banks for Money, Food, Blood . . . & Furniture I was familiar with the term “food bank,” but — until I spoke to a salesperson at a local furniture store this weekend — had never heard the term “furniture bank.” That’s where local non-profit Bridging comes in. Bridging will pick up used furniture in...Read More
Want to Check Out a Community? Go to the Public Library Whenever my parents traveled, to get to a feel for the local community — cultural, historical, religious (they’re Jewish), architecture, etc. — they would always visit the local synagogue(s). Me? I go to the local library. I head there not just to check...Read More
From the Mouths of Babes [Editor’s Note: my blog posts the past week have more been more intermittent — and spiced with NY anecdotes — because I just returned from there. Memo to self: put away the sharp elbows and aggressive driving (adaptive in NY, but out-of-place in the more congenial, laid-back Midwest.] Compiling an exhaustive list...Read More