Archive for July 6th, 2008

The Return of Mary Garden

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

by: James Schwartz
Chicago, in late March, glittered cool and crisp with it’s modern buildings and skyscrapers as crisp as the gales off Lake Michigan where I found myself seated at an outdoor cafe.
  I had been to Chicago several times as a schoolboy dutifully marching through museums but that was oh twelve years ago. It [...]

Money… I want!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

About 8 years ago my step mother said to me, "I am my stuff. I am my money." What she was saying is that without her ’stuff’ she’d be nothing. She was worthless. Are we our money? Does it really provide what it is that we desire? Power, prestige, lots of stuff, freedom? Or is [...]