Jerry Chasen's Blog

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 [...]

Shortly before writing this, the law firm I headed: a) was robbed; b) moved; c) dissolved; and d) was robbed again. I was also in a new relationship, way more suddenly than I’d planned after the 7 year relationship I had been in ended the previous July. Whew!

I’ve long believed that we create ourselves by our responses–to situations, to challenges, and of course, to some basic questions. Using journalism’s “4 w’s and and h”, I tried to explore some interesting, defining questions.