Georgia Garvey – Page 7

Column: Why are we in quarantine? We’re saving the lives of people we will never meet.

April 27, 2020 at 1:56 p.m.

Every day, an email hits my inbox from the Cook County medical examiner's office. In it are the names and cause of deaths of every county resident whose death led...

An hour-by-hour account of the inner workings of a company now operating off-site.

Column: Daily work log for Garvey, Inc., quarantine edition

April 16, 2020 at 4:15 p.m.

Dear shareholders, In this troubled time, we at Garvey, Inc., offer a small window into company operations as we move all activity off-site. The following log details a typical workday...

Julie Andrews as Maria in "The Sound of Music."

Column: Lessons from the last time I was sort-of quarantined

April 9, 2020 at 11:58 a.m.

I've never had any experience exactly like the one we're all sharing (from six feet away) during the coronavirus pandemic. None of us have. But, being isolated in my home,...

Column: Six things I’m grateful for during this stay-at-home order, no C-words allowed

April 3, 2020 at 12:45 p.m.

Wow. Well, things have been relatively horrifying lately, haven't they? I work in the news industry and I'm pretty much at maximum-terror overload so instead of bombarding you with even...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows the Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper.

Column: The Rock ‘n Play sleeper was recalled last week. It saved us from many sleepless nights.

April 18, 2019 at 12:17 p.m.

Last week, Fisher-Price announced a massive recall of all of its Rock 'n Play sleepers, saying that more than 30 babies have died in them. Until pretty recently, my husband...

Some people need to talk about the loss of a pregnancy. If you're on the hearing end, listening can mean more than you know.

When someone has a miscarriage, just listen

October 1, 2020 at 11:39 a.m.

If you're ever looking for way to clear out a room, consider talking about your miscarriage. According to the Mayo Clinic, there's at least a 1 in 5 chance a...

A birthday gift, from my grandmother, to the boy she’ll never meet

May 23, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

Later this month, my son will turn a year old. We'll throw a party — grander than some but probably more laid-back than most — eat gyros and cupcakes, talk...

Supporters of the "no" vote wave Greek flags at Syntagma Square in Athens on July 5, 2015, when Greeks rejected international creditors' demands in a nationwide referendum.

A sad happy day at one coffee shop in Greece

May 11, 2019 at 2:26 a.m.

Today, like most summer days, my dad will sip coffee and play cards in a cafe in Oktonia. The coffee shop, the cards and my dad live in the tiny...

Is there love at first sight?

August 22, 2021 at 9:10 p.m.

The setup: Fifty-six percent of Americans believe in love at first sight, according to a "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll released Wednesday. YES For the sake of this argument, I'm going...

Ikura temaki (quail egg, salmon roe and wild rice) is one of the dishes at Kitsune, which means "fox" in Japanese.

Halsted liquor says it’s vodka with a cause

December 23, 2018 at 10:40 a.m.

The owners of Halsted vodka want you to raise a glass, have fun and support LGBT causes--all at the same time. "Here's a product that the gay community likes and...

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