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Christmas Spirit Around the Corner
The Christmas spirit came to me one year in the guise of a street fight. I was in Chicago shopping and touring the city, and since it was my first visit, I spent the evening craning and turning in order to take in the Art Deco downtown with its sweeping canyons of elegant buildings. My [...]
Passing the Flame
Author’s Note: I have been granted the generous permission to publish this story by my former client’s husband. All names have been changed to protect identities. L.T. Flipping through client files my hands cross over the stiff manila folders, touching names printed in the corner. Unbidden, each person come across in flashes as bright as [...]
Suggestions for Greater Happiness
I once had a client ask me, “What is the secret to happiness?” The question, while simply put, is much harder to answer. Throughout history, once man has satisfied his basic survival needs of shelter, food, water and safety, he begins to naturally look into the next order of needs, the elements that feed our [...]