Jerry Chasen's Blog

This was a year of major change for me—milestone birthday and new career. A skydive captured much of that change, since (like last year’s bungee jump) it is definitely not my customary kind of activity. It all got me thinking about dreams—those I have yet to pursue, the current climate, and our collective dreams. These thoughts seemed to Occupy my attention as the holidays approached.

I jumped off a bridge this past year. This is not a typical activity for me. To say the least, I learned a great deal from the experience.

We’re moving–both our home and our workspaces–and that’s the change I refer to here.

It’s unusual for me to find someone stating my own perspective on something better than I can.  It’s even more rare when that statement is coming from someone I thought hadn’t even the awareness of that perspective, much less agreed with it. Nonetheless that’s where I find myself today.  Both in an op-ed piece in [...]

I read with some sadness Ellen Goodman’s final column yesterday.  She’s been an astute observer of our culture for as long as I can remember, and what she had to say about “retirement” was right on the money. I loved what she had to say about “what’s next”.  She doesn’t know.  She does know that [...]