FROM THE ARCHIVES: One benefit of this website is that it allows for some more interesting older essays, interviews, and other projects I have worked on to be occasionally resurrected for a current audience. This interview with best-selling author Christiane Northrup, M.D., is from Chicago’s Conscious Choice magazine (September 1998). Here she explores some of her
Here is a short account of a family story that only became known to me in recent years. In the early 1950s after my mother Marion moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of Seattle, she met my father Reed and three months later they were engaged. She was 19 and he was 22. Her
This is an excerpt from a work in progress, tentatively titled, “These Are Sunny Days for Our Family: Stories From My Youth.” Early 1970s. In my college years, I work three summers as an over-the-road truck driver for my father Reed’s new packaging business. It’s a good-paying summer job, delivering plastic bottles from his suburban Chicago manufacturing
Do you want to know how the economy works these days? Consider the rewards of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who likes to think of his company as a paragon of the socially engaged corporation. In fiscal year 2013 Schultz personally gobbled up $149.8 million in realized compensation for his efforts, thanks no doubt to the
In the wake of the sad news of entertainer Robin William’s recent suicide, news and social media outlets were flooded with a predictable flurry of stunned reactions and commentary. How could a man with such fame and wealth, admired and loved by millions, be unhappy enough to actually want to kill himself? If only Williams
MARK HARRIS 