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e have had feedback on our new section. (Antecdotal as well as in writing, mostly via email.) There are more than a few of you who saw themselves — vacationing in unknown Florida, obsessively checking FaceBook for posts with new family members, live-streaming an entire season of “Arrested Development,” keeping track of your deep sleep with a device or taking a close-up photo with a real, high-quality camera — in the pages of Prime.

But even more readers were prompted to share their own stories: about caring for a loved one who was involved in a devastating accident in mid-life; snorkeling in the Caribbean for the first time at age 63; starting a small business instead of retiring and opening up a spare bedroom for a nephew who is going to grad school while working his way up from a parttime job. You can be sure we will be sharing those experiences in print and online at nwi.com/ prime.

Of course, finding out a little bit about your big story only makes me — a person who looks at data sets several times a day — want to dig into the details. How did that rambunctious dog you rescued actually fit in with your slightly vain and overweight house cat you have raised since she was a cute baby kitten? You went to the sleep

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And maybe I will. Everyone can use extra texture, really context applied.

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ome people read the death notices. I’m more interested in the life notices— birthdays. Olivia de Havilland turned 97 July 1st. Quite an accomplishment.

If you go on Google maps, you can see the neighborhood where she lives in Paris is one of those nice ones halfway out from the Arc d’ Triumphe, near a modern Congress building. (I’ve only been to Paris a couple of times but it’s not that hard to figure out there aren’t that many bad neighborhoods. They used to wash the streets every day in Paris.) So I posted that link on my Tumblr blog. Then I found a photo from when she played Melanie Wilkes in “Gone with the Wind,” did the arithmetic and figured out she was 23 years old when that movie came out, so I posted that too and I put four tags on it. (Olivia de Havilland is the sole surviving star. Vivien Leigh, who was 25 when she played Scarlett O’Hara, died in 1967.)

“Olivia De Havilland played Melanie Wilkes in “Gone With the Wind” in 1939. She was 23 years old.” That was probably the shortest thing I ever posted on a blog. I was pretty surprised to find out the next morning that a dozen people had commented on my post. Seven liked it, three reblogged and two commented. Jauquettirivers said “Happy Birthday to my favourite actress!!!!” using the English spelling and Chalchok: The Night Stalker said, “I feel like her being only 23 is kind of a big deal. And one that rarely gets mentioned. You star in one of the greatest movies of all time, get nominated for an Oscar, and you’re only 23.” The Night Stalker has a point. The female movie stars of that era were all in their 20s. The

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male stars were at least 10 years older. (Clarke Gable was 38.) But a large percentage of people died in their 50s then.

I went to Chalchok’s blog to follow her comment suffers “from Reddit and found out that she FriendFeed Microsoft MSN generational confusion, aka the belief I was born a generation or two too soon (damn you 1986). Or really, I’m a strange mashup of Virginia Cunningham, Catherine Sloper, and Charlotte Vale.

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Newsvine SlideShare App Store Amazon Good. I don’t know who Virginia Cunningham, Catherine Sloper, and Charlotte Vale are. So I decided to let this whole thing rest there at least for the time being, though I continue to blog at my semiYahoo Yahoo Qik Vimeo professional level. Buzz I have posted 43 times now and I have had comments on other topics too like my nephew Ray Stasi who is in Navy SEAL training and the book, ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by Lionel Shriver.

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JUL 16 Laugh for the Health of It! 7-8pm, Lake County Public Library Merrillville Branch, 1919 W 81st Ave, Merrillville. 888.303.0180. lcplin. org. Led by a certified laughter yoga instructor, this unique exercise routine encourages unconditional laughter, without jokes or comedy, to oxygenate the body, reduce stress and improve mood. No mats needed.

JUL 16-AUG 20 Pilates, 6:30-7:30pm, Schererville Community Center, 500 E Joliet St, Schererville. 219.865.5530. activenwi.com.

Suitable for all levels, this mat-based class helps strengthen major muscles, improve flexibility and focus on core strengthening. The class meets weekly for six weeks and participants should bring their own mat.

JUL 20 Buckley Five Miler, 6-7:15am registration & check-in; 7:30am start, Buckley Homestead, 3606 Belshaw Rd, Lowell. 219.696.1570. lakecountyparks.com. This annual race features a challenging, picturesque course through the grounds of Buckley Homestead.

Jul 26-28 Pierogi Fest, 119th St, Whiting. 219.659.0292. pierogifest. net. Drawing almost 200,000 visitors each year, this festival celebrates all things pierogi. The weekend’s festivities include the Pierogi Parade, games, a beer garden, musical entertainment, food of all sorts, and, of course, pierogi.

JUL 31 Common Foot Problems Seminar, Noon-1pm, St. Mary Medical Center, Patient Tower, 1500 S Lake Park Ave, Hobart. Podiatrist Jared Moon, DPM, will discuss common injuries, ailments and conditions of the feet and their treatment options. Please call 219-836-3477 or toll-free 866-836-3477 to register.

AUG 1 Life Line Health Screening, 9am-5pm, Portage Public Library Rooms A & B, 2665 Irving St, Portage. 800.324.1851. lifelinescreening.com/community-partners. Lifeline preventative screenings and scans take a total of 60 to 90 minutes and can detect health problems related to—stroke, vascular disease, osteoporosis and heart rhythm. Appointments are limited and registration is required by phone or online.

AUG 13 Memory Screening, 10am-2pm, Hartsfield Village Senior Living Community, 10000 Columbia Ave, Munster. Early detection and recognition of mild cognitive impairment is important to improving the quality of life. Hartsfield Village Senior Living Community, a designated Memory Screening center for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, offers free, confidential memory screenings. Appointments are required.

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Through AUG 8 Adult Group Golf Lessons, 6:45-8:15pm Thu, Scherwood Golf, 600 E Joliet St, Schererville. activenwi.com. Students will learn all the elements of the game of golf from PGA member instructors. Instructions include the basics—grip, stance, swing, procedures, terminology and more. Students receive one free round of golf on the executive course at the conclusion of the four-week class.

Through Aug 16 Summer Rhapsody Music Festival, Porter Health Amphitheatre, Central Park Plaza, downtown Valparaiso. 219.464.8332. valparaisoevents.com. From classical to jazz, this musical festival offers a feast for senses of musical lovers of all ages. Attendees are invited to bring a picnic, a blanket and chairs to the event. Jul 17: Middle of the Road Band; Jul 24: Middle School Band; Aug 8: Chicago Rat Pack; Aug 16: Spazmatics.

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new experiences S ummer is a time when travel is taken to places near and far to take a break from the everyday grind and experience new things. In addition to the couples heading off for romantic trips to the tropics or parents heading out on road trips with their kids are many multigenerational groups taking advantage of spending quality time together. Traveling with adult children or with grandchildren gives an opportunity to enjoy nature and leisurely activities together, to get to know one another better and to develop a better appreciation for each other.

Don and Lorna Williams of Valparaiso took a recent trip to Williamsburg, Virginia with their daughter and two grandsons, which included several day trips, an outing on a sailing ship, a theme park visit and a day in Colonial Williamsburg. Don Williams said grandsons, Max, 12, and Owen, 8, enjoyed the interactive history lessons at the living museum, especially one where they played the part of patriot spies, bridging the gap between the past and today’s technology as they used cell phones to help find clues.

This was the second long family vacation the three generations have taken together to Williamsburg, the place where the Williams’ grew up and met in high school and now have a time share. The five of them spent a week together in addition to a couple days of traveling to and from their destination, which took about 12 hours by car.

Having an opportunity to see so much of nature and learn so much about history was an experience all parties were happy to have. Being in such close quarters for the ride gave Don Williams a better understanding of some of the benefits of technology. “We had the good fortune of having a DVD player in the car, which helps the adults keep their sanity,” he said. “When I was a kid you watched license plates and counted cows, but it’s just not like that now.”

The grandkids, likewise, realized a better understanding about their grandparents and where they came from as they visited places that were significant in their lives when they lived in the area at a young age.

Don Williams was pleased that the trip allowed for some education blended in to the vacation and that the kids prepped with online activities in advance.

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ROADSCHOLAR.ORG has a listing of intergenerational tours available throughout the country, from “Exploring the Woods and Waters of the North Woods” in Wisconsin to “San Francisco: City by the bay with your grandchild” to “Intergenerational White Water Rafting Adventure on Idaho’s Salmon River” and several others. According to the website, the organization has “been offering enriching learning adventures for grandparents and their grandchildren for more than 30 years.”

was as a parent,” said Sue Richards. “They’re seeing the ocean for the first time. I see the ocean all the time, so I don’t have that same appreciation. It’s nice to see it through their eyes and say ‘Wow!’ again. You have a new perspective.”

Her grandkids were able to join her and her husband for two weeks in Florida as they visited her sister. “I do like to travel with them. I enjoy their company. They are good kids,” said Sue Richards. “And my sister enjoyed them because she doesn’t have any grandkids yet.”

Linda and Robert Boyd of Highland have traveled the country with their grandkids, ages 14 and 11. Several of their trips have been work related for their parents, who are both educators. The three generations have traveled together with the Boyds spending time with their grandkids during the day while their parents attended conferences. The Boyds have also taken a number of solo Courtesy of the Boyd Family trips with the grandkids as well.

“I like to fill the days with lots of activities and do things Linda and Robert Boyd with their grandkids on a they’re going to remember and learn something from,” said recent trip to St. Louis.

Linda Boyd. “We usually research the place before we go, annually and their grandchildren, Madison, 10 and Aaron, like we did with Washington D.C. and Mt. Rushmore.”

The most recent trip was over spring break to St. 8, were companions on a trip there this year. They have Louis and to Hannibal, Missouri. “They’re really good also taken them on other summer vacations and on day trips around Midwest. Not only are her grandkids getting kids and we enjoy taking them with us because it makes us feel young,” said Linda Boyd. “We’re already close, but the gift of the travel experiences, but she said she gets so much out of their vacations by being able to revisit places I do think it strengthens the bond to travel together.”

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GREEN STOVE The pressing issue of the week is this fabulously elegant and coquettish, completely useless, 1930s (or ’20s, or ’40s) green stove in my kitchen.

Don’t think the trendy avocado green of the ’60s and ’70s— no, no. Think DENISE DECLUE “mint” green.

Like Frango Mint green. Remember those? Remember a mint green stove? Probably not. Your mother most likely hadn’t even been born when the ElectroChef (built in Detroit, Michigan) was marketed to “the modern woman.”

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Vintage Frango Mint green stove by ElectroChef for “the modern woman.”

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emember the modern woman? She was the one who cheerfully did her own cooking and cleaning and yard work and laundry and child-rearing and grocery shopping and tuck-pointing and chimney-cleaning and furniturerefinishing and oh, yeah, sewed her own clothes. She was modern before our generation when we did all that and worked a full- time job as well.

It says so, right on there on the stove: “For the Modern Woman, ” embossed under a metallic head of a gal with the kind of hairdo they fancy in Masterpiece Theater—you know, where they tuck long hair with a million bobby pins to make it look like it’s short—when it isn’t. Cutting hair, “no-no.” Lying about it, “a-ok.”

Everybody knows the gal didn’t cut her hair; but they think she’s hip enough to look like she might have.

Reminds me of those Middle-Eastern burqas—shrouds for living women—that only reveal their eyes. Eyes made up with a hundred bucks worth of eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow, brow liner, etc. The message: “I’m pretending I’m just a functional broad, but really I’m much, much more.”

Just like my stove. My stove is elegant, enticing and. . . how do they say it colloquially? . . . a lyin’ piece o’ pond scum. Granted, gorgeously mint green pond scum.

I told the landlord (the proud owner of this antique cross-for-me-to-bear) that after I tried working with

this thing awhile, I looked around for the slave quarters.

No “modern woman” would have cooked on it herself. I don’t even know how to take it apart to clean under the burners. Even the cleaning lady, when I had a cleaning lady, wouldn’t touch it. “Forget the stove,” she said, “I’m not doing it.”

I have gradually outfitted my kitchen with every kind of electric cooking thing: slow cooker, crock pot, electric skillet, microwave, toaster oven, thus bypassing the stove. I gave up on the oven a year ago, after my poor daughter-in-law’s homemade spectacular eggplant parmesan lay un-cooking for two hours in an oven that proclaimed itself to be 350 degrees F. It lied. Surprise.

The whole contraption is a big liar. All four burners have knobs which read: HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, OFF. I only attempt to use three of them. The fourth burner looks like the inside of an electronic volcano—with a ceramic thing in the middle and tiny slinky-like wires snaking around it. It scares the heck out of me. HIGH usually works, but that’s it. Since most stove-top cooking requires HIGH to heat up the pan, often bringing something to a boil, then reducing heat—you’d think, well, that should work. But forget MEDIUM. . .it either doesn’t know MEDIUM from it’s ass or it prevaricates. LOW? My stove thinks LOW is another word for “BARELY ALIVE.” Or, it bats its A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE TIMES MEDIA CO.

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Reddit heavily- mascara-ed eyes and says, “I do ‘low’ all the time, Honey. No problem. Trust me.” LOW is so low you forget it’s on ‘til you smell something funny and realize you put a Tupperware bowl on it. And it’s melting.

We called Sears about the stove, and when we told them how old it was, Sears said, “No way.” So this morning a nice young man came from Lane Appliance LLC to evaluate the stove. He puttered a bit, hmm’d a bit, and then joined the cleaning lady’s team. Nope. No way. Not doing it.

“Can’t fix it or won’t fix it?” bellowed Jim-theLandlord, a nice 91-year-old man with an often-gruff exterior, who came to check on the stove-checker.

“I don’t do these kinds of restorations,” said the nice young man. “I can give you a phone number for somebody who might. They’re in California. But they come out here sometimes,” he said.

“Great,” I said, “Let’s fly him out.”

Jim-the-Landlord snorted. His snorts translate as “forget about it.”

Before Jim-the-Landlord left , he tried to get me to say that really the stove worked just fine. “HIGH” and “BARELY ALIVE” should be enough, right? You can heat stuff up, right?

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. My darling ElectroChef is a 500-pound rice cooker.“I don’t even know how to clean under those burners,” I said. “Are you supposed to take the whole thing apart?”

“You don’t even know how to clean an electric stove?” barked The Landlord, in the same tone used by a woman who inevitably provokes a fist fight when she says, “What kind of a man are you?”

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really, I do think the whole stove-cleaning thing is kind of beneath me. I mean, I’ll do it—but do they offer a class at the junior college on “how” to clean a 1930s electric stove? Frankly, I’m a glass cook-top, self-cleaning-oven Yahoo Newsvine SlideShare kinda gal, myself.

Jim-the-Landlord, a reknowned preservationist, who has spent the most recent part of his life saving significant buildings (and obviously kitchen appliances) from destruction, started jamming at one of the burners.

“Get me a screwdriver,” he ordered. “These things just flip right out.”

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Anyway, Jim flipped out the burner, which was attached to an ohms-and-amps electricity lesson we didn’t have at my high school. But he couldn’t App Store get it back Microsoft MSN where it came from. “Look down there. Look at it. It goes right there. What do you see?”

I saw a little tab. In my mind I thought the burner went the other way, but I couldn’t be sure.

“We’ll get you some of these new things,” he said, looking at the little cup-kind-of-thing under the round burner. It was horribly gunky, because nobody I know Qik Appcleaned Storeit because we hadAmazon ever no clue as to how to get at it. “You just need some new ones,” he said. “All the stores have them.” Then he left. Half an hour later, he came back with the replacements.

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project. We lured him right into my kitchen. They bent over the stove. It’s a very tiny kitchen and I slipped away.

Hilarity ensued (off-stage) as Jim-the-Landlord tried to show Marv-the-Handyman how easy it was to take Yahoo Buzz Netvibes Google Talk out the filthy little cups under Google the burner that the ditzy lady tenant didn’t even know how to clean, and put the burners back like they used to be. Nobody could quite Google Buzz figure it out. Ha! I giggled. Then they did.

And now I am the proud graduate of the postgraduate course called, “How Men Clean the Stove.”

No Ajax. No toxic agents. No scraping. No scrubbing.

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After they left, my husband,Ebay who was only able to observe part of this, asked the pertinent question: “What was your goal with all this? I thought you wanted a new stove. Are you any closer to that?”

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According to a booklet entitled “I Adore My Electrochef,” it is “A symphony of graceful, flowing lines, gleaming porcelain, sparkling metal! Completely divorced Vimeo Viddler Last.fm Mister Wong from every tradition of old-fashioned range design, Electrochef is so genuinely modern, so thoroughly in good taste as to become a ‘show-piece’ in even the most Xing pretentious kitchen! Electrochef is more than worthy of its position as ‘America’s most beautiful appliance!’”

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One of the most iconic beach cruisers, the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible has been completely redone for 2013.

Following the lead of last year’s all-new Beetle coupe, it’s a more muscular take on the familiar shape, accentuating “longer, lower and wider” lines. Improvements don’t stop with looks. Over two cubic feet of truck room was added, and the amount of space stays the same with the top up or down. Body rigidity increased by twenty percent. As with the Beetle coupe, three engine options are available, 2.5L, TDI and Turbo.

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journalists. But even more fittingly, the Beetle also played an influential role in Southern California car culture. John Lazenby has owned and driven Beetles for 50 years. A founding member of California’s world famous Der Kleiner Panzers car club devoted to the Beetle, Lazenby reflected: “Back in the day they were actually a ‘status symbol’ in SoCal and they were as common as any car you could ever think of. The youth of those times drove them and it continued on to the wealthy who realized what great transportation they were and didn’t need the big expensive Detroit iron.”

To accentuate the oceanside aesthetic of the Beetle Convertible, the drive started at Santa Monica’s legendary oceanfront and went up the Pacific Coast Highway, followed by drive loops through the

surrounding mountains.

It’s a less than ten second wait to enjoy the California sunshine, the time it takes to lower the roof. Standard heated seats quickly took the edge off the cool morning. The increased stiffness was evident. No cowl shake — oscillations seen in the windshield frame when going over bumps — was observed, though California does have some very smooth roads. Convertibles are an engineering challenge since the roof of a car is an important structural component.

Automakers across the board are getting better at finding ways to reinforce droptop bodies for a tight, rattle-free ride.

Couple this with a multi-layered, wellinsulated convertible top with a heatable glass rear window, the Beetle Convertible is perfectly viable as a no-compromise

year-round daily driver.

With the three different engine options available and trim level choices with each, you get Beetle Convertibles of distinct character. Speaking of character, watch for the special launch editions of the Beetle Convertible commemorating the decades of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Entry level trim includes such amenities as a sixspeed automatic transmission and heated seats for an MSRP of $24,995.

While the base 2.5-liter five-cylinder is a proven engine, my personal favorite combination was the performance oriented 2.0-liter Turbo with DSG transmission. The DSG operates as an automatic, though has internals similar to a manual. With two internal clutches, it can pre-stage the next gear for quick transitions without wasting any engine

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The transmission selector moved from the center console to the steering column to provide more storage space. Most notably, a single piece of burl walnut trim spans almost the entire instrument panel.

Attractive round air vents with silver tone accents replace the previous square vents.

The GLK350’s 3.5-liter V-6 is redesigned, moving from a 90-degree to a 60-degree configuration. Gasoline direct injection, a more precise method of fuel delivery, replaces more common port injection. Horsepower is up to 302 from 268 in last year’s model. It also features an automatic start/stop system, which saves fuel by shutting the engine off when you come to a stop, and restarting it when you take your foot off the brake pedal.

A seven-speed automatic transmission is standard. Available all-wheel drive inspires all-season confidence with Mercedes-Benz’s outstanding 4MATIC system.

On the twisting roads of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the GLK exhibited exemplary driving manners. It offers carlike ride and handling, staying level in corners and masterfully absorbing bumps.

A new electric power steering system felt responsive at speed and made parking effortless.

Even though the GLK-Class is the smallest of Mercedes-Benz’s sport utility vehicle lineup, it still feels roomy inside.

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here aren’t too many of us who can say we found our calling in life right from the get-go, but for Donna Blue Lachman, a free spirit if ever there was one, recognizing her passion to become an actress, an artist, was as simple as child’s play. “I grew up in Skokie and my mother was an actress. She was in the USO and she used to act out scenes for me and my sister. She’d stand in the living room and perform and she could even cry on cue! She pushed me to pursue it, saw that I loved it, and put me in a theater class at age 4. I was the star of my first grade play,” remembers Lachman, leaning back in a wicker chair at her Three Oaks, Michigan home, her curly mane flowing over the edges.

It wasn’t long before Lachman reached in deeper, felt around the periphery of what was possible in theater, started to explore new possibilities in theater. “In high school I started getting weird. I was a cheerleader but it was the ‘60s and I wanted to do experimental theater.

I went to Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, a small school of 200 freaks and it was very hip and creative and wild.

“Phoebe Snow was my college roommate and she and I were very tight, even until she died. All I wanted to do was read about avant garde theater. I backpacked all over the world to study with directors I’d read about. I journeyed in Poland, I lived in Haiti and studied voodoo and went to Kathmandu in Nepal and studied the roots of theater,” she says as if it is nothing, as if everyone goes on such travels to seek what they love, to find the core of their being.

But it wasn’t nothing. It was setting

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a foundation, one that would be realized when she returned home. “I came back to Chicago and I figured my odds of landing a great role in a great play in a great theater were small, so I decided to start my own theater, the Blue Rider Theatre in Pilsen on 18th and Halsted which we, my pals and I, had for 14 years from 1986 to 2000.”

It was at this theater that Lachman wrote, directed, and performed in her own productions, working together with fellow actors and artists and creators. It was here that she won the prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo and she was nominated for an Equity Award for her performance of Family Secrets.

She was awarded research fellowships to write plays, so she hit the road again, traveling to Venice to research her onewoman show on Peggy Guggenheim, and to Mexico to research her show on Frida Kahlo she directed with Mary

“Donna Blue Lachman on the porch of her home retreat with her dog Bela.”

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Zimmerman. She also won an Emmy for her work on television as host of Free for All Chicago, a syndicated show where Lachman traveled around the streets of Chicago in a golf cart to educate viewers on all they could do for free around the city. “It was a very popular show, it was a gas! It ran for about two years and I got to interview everyone I ever wanted to meet in Chicago,” she says.

Lachman says that she closed her theater because she just felt it was time to move on. Her landlord had raised her rent and she was feeling burned out after years on the same stage. She longed to live the country life—farm-fresh eggs down the road, basil and blueberries in her back yard, and a home full of photos and art, a testament to her connection with many friends all over the world.

“She got a position at LaLumiere School in LaPorte directing their theater program, which she did for a number of years. “I loved it. I love working with high school kids,” she says, and she continued this work at other schools in the area over the years. She welcomed friends and strangers alike to her home for retreats, to her four acres of gardens, pines and still, sweet air on the Galien River—the campfires, the night-time swims, and all the insightful group conversations. All the while, Lachman continued to write and perform herself, portraying strong women at the Acorn Theater, strong women like Kahlo, Guggenheim, Rosa Luxemburg, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, and especially herself.

It was after Lachman went through a period of her life that was fraught with upheaval that she pulled inward, letting the weeds take over, killing all the perennials

healing to me for so many years, like the and covering the 66 blueberry bushes.

Her marriage ended after 12 years, and the Giving Tree, so with such a full heart I am taking care of this land.” gardens that Lachman and her husband Lachman has been hosting retreats on had tended together, cultivating with their hands, was left to go wild. Lachman simply her land since 1987. Hundreds of women have been there and have never forgotten didn’t feel emotionally able to give to the earth when she was struggling to mend her it. Many come back. “Each retreat brings own heart. Broken. “We gardened a lot here some sort of a transformation for all of us. When you have strangers come and we welcomed guests here. and they bond, it’s magical. Anytime “When he left, I left the land. I didn’t you have someone open up about their feel like tending to it. It got more thorny and overgrown but I kept working, kept doing plays at the Acorn, and in Chicago...,”and PROVIDED PHOTO FROM kept teaching.

PREVIOUS RETREAT “Last May I looked around me and asked, what should I do? And it seemed like the land answered, ‘If you take care of me, I’ll take care of you.’ It was like a thunderbolt! This has been my home for more than half of my life,” she says with an understanding that comes only after deep sorrow and serious introspection.

It has been six long years since Lachman has held a retreat on her land, but this summer and fall, Lachman is once again opening her home to women and renting out the property for lives, they get feedback, insights, and weekends and other retreats. She realized we all see how connected we are to each other. Compassion comes from knowing that it is too gorgeous not to share. about someone else’s life. Discussions on “My neighbors have come to help and have pruned all the blueberry bushes; my retreat are like no other conversations, brother is schlepping the heavy stuff, and anywhere. There are meals and fires and yoga and art and wine and visualization we’re recovering plants that have been and silent times to which are so rare in buried for years! I love the country. I’ve always loved theater and the country, but most of our lives. It’s a balance between now I really see that this space has been so being outward and having fun, and

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looking inward,” she says.

The place where theater and retreats collide is a natural place for Lachman.

“People often ask me how my life in the theater connects to the retreats. When I begin to direct a play, or lead an acting or improvisational workshop, usually none of the participants know one another.

I have to guide them through a series of exercises to get them not only to work well together, but to ‘get’ each other. By get, I mean, to stop, to look, and to listen. When we’re all in a circle, instead of running our own thoughts about what we want to say, I ask them to stop; to hold those thoughts.

We look at them. We see their gestures, their body language, we look them in the eyes.

“And we listen. We listen to what they are saying, or what they are not saying; what is easy for them to say and what is difficult.

All without judgment. And then comes the compassion, the desire for them to break through their fears and their limitations, because those are not that different from our own. In theater, you are only as good as your partner. Life should be like that too.

Retreats help us step away from our lives, to clear the fog. My friends and I often say that we can see solutions so clearly for others, but not so easy for ourselves.

We begin to understand that things don’t happen to us—they happen for us.” The healing power of the land and of fellow human beings is a powerful thing indeed.

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THE DESCENDANTS: Think about them before it’s too late

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verything came together last year.

First I read Mark Twain’s recently published autobiography. For the benefit of a few of you young’ns, Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, was the first genuine celebrity author in America. He basically got rich the same way that David Sedaris does.

By writing books that made people laugh and then going on lecture tours to support his writing habit.

When he got old and didn’t have to go out on tour so much, he went to Europe and visited his friends, agents and publishers in the book business in New York. One of his very good friends was former president Ulysees S. Grant, who wrote what is regarded as the best autobiography every written. Most of the book was dictated to a secretary while Grant was living in a beautiful greystone building near Central Park. Twain’s autobiography explains how the book was written and why in his autobiography. Grant and Twain had invested with the wrong person and both lost a lot of money, although Grant lost everything. At the time, there was no pension provided for former presidents and so Grant, who was in poor health, determined that he had to establish a reliable income for his wife and children.

That all worked out in the end. Twain goes into the gorey financial details in his book.

The gorey details were the reason Twain stipulated that his autobiography should not be published until 100 years after he died.

That made good sense, especially after I read his book. Mark Twain had very candid observations about a number people who are still famous today. Can you imagine how many people would have been offended if they outlived the author long enough to read the book?

This is definitely a concern of mine. While I would like to write an interesting and amusing autobiography, I would rather not offend anybody or humiliate my children. Not that I would tell every story totally honestly, but I would at least try to tell my version of the truth to the best of my ability.

So publication in 100 years after my death sounds about right to me.

The second covergent factor in the decision to start writing an autobiography very slowly for the next 20-30 years, was made after I went on Ancestry.com. You can go on Ancestry.com for a short period of time for free. I found out a bunch of relatives of my maternal 14 |||||| PRIME ||||| JULY 16, 2013

grandmother had been on the web site and traced themselves back to the 1600s in Scotland or somewhere. This was probably common back then, but what used to happen in my family, was that the men would get married, have 7-8-9 children and the first wife would die of exhaustion.

Then he would marry a younger woman and have 7-8-9 more children and she would die of exhaustion. And this would keep going until the man finally died in his 80s or 90s. Depressing for girls, right? Although, I sort of take the attitude that I’m very happy I was able to qualify for another job besides having babies.

I was amazed by a fascinating coincidence I noticed—one of my relatives was born exactly 200 years before I was. He lived in North Carolina, which means he was just about the right age to be a rebel in the American Revolution and

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maybe he had done and seen a whole lot of even more interesting things in his life.

The sad part for me is that I’ll probably never know for sure if he could read or write.

I really wish he would have left a book to be published 100 years after he died.

Then there was another converging factor: My grandson Teddy was born and will be learning to read very soon. He can already work an iPad-mini so there is no stopping him now. So I decided that I should write a book about my life and everything that happens including the Chicago Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup, the power going out for three days last week, what it was like before we had computers and the day President Kennedy was killed. So, almost every day I write about what happened and I try to give it some big picture context like.

“Oh by the way, the Supreme Court decided today that the Affordable Healthcare Act was a tax and it’s all right for the federal government to tell somebody like your Aunt Ida that if she doesn’t get health insurance she won’t get much of an income tax return.”

And then after I die, Teddy can read my autobiography on the condition that he keeps it to himself until I’ve been dead 100 years.

When I think about it, I may have already written about certain things that Teddy may not especially want to have out there.

But even if Teddy doesn’t mind, I don’t want to embaress his parents anymore than I already have. So that’s my story about telling my story.

Your story is probably the most valuable inheritance you could leave any one of your descendants. People aren’t sitting on Ancestry.com because they want to find out when their ancestors moved to Ohio, they want to find out the kind of people they were—ordinary farmers or poets? Or both? Were they happy? Did they hate the people who lived next door? Did anyone know how to play the piano?

That’s the kind of stuff I want to know.

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ne recent morning, while making my grocery list, I peered into the fridge to see what was what, veggie-wise.

Spying a few leftover red carrots and a bunch of green onions from the Farmers’ Market, an untouched box of shittake mushrooms and, in a little plastic bag, some fresh ginger that had seen better days, I realized I had most of the makings for a stir-fry.

With a recipe in my pocket for stir-frying

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seafood with ginger, I headed for the supermarket. The plump snowy scallops in the fish case won me over right away. I added a good handful of fresh snow peas to my cart and headed to the Asian section for oyster sauce and sesame oil.

Served on wedges of a crispy noodle pancake and with a chilled glass of pinot grigio, the stir-fried scallops made a lovely dinner for two. — Jane Dunne

Combine broth, oyster sauce, cornstarch and sesame oil in a small bowl and set aside.

Heat 1-1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat. Add carrots and stir-fry 1-1/2 minutes. Add snow peas and stir-fry until bright green, about 1-1/2 minutes. Transfer carrots and snow peas to a bowl and set aside.

Heat remaining tablespoon oil in the same pan over high heat. Add mushrooms and stir fry about 2 minutes until softened.

Remove mushrooms with a slotted spoon and add to the carrots and snow peas. Add green onions and ginger to the oil in the pan and stir-fry until aromatic, about 30 seconds.

Add scallops and stir-fry for 1-1/2 minutes.

Stir the reserved broth mixture in the small bowl to dissolve cornstarch and add to the pan. Stir until sauce thickens. Return reserved carrots, snow peas and mushrooms and stir until coated with the sauce. Spoon over wedges of the noodle pancake and serve on warm plates.

NOODLE PANCAKE ounces linguine 6 4 green onions, chopped Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 teaspoon and 1-1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided 1-1/2 tablespoons sesame oil

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Heat remaining 1-1/2 tablespoons oil, plus the sesame oil, in a heavy 9-inch skillet over medium heat. Add noodles and flatten slightly. Cook without stirring until light brown on the bottom, about 6 minutes.

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e have seen them, the people proclaiming from the rooftops that they are giving up their cable services and instead streaming TV from the internet. People are deciding the monthly cost of paying for Comcast Xfinity or DIRECTV is simply too much.

They instead are turning to services like Hulu Plus and Netflix for a low monthly cost around $8 each.

Which one of these devices should you pick? Each offers its own list of pros and cons.

Roku 3 The latest in the Roku devices, the Roku 3 is set out to be the biggest competitor against Apple TV. Roku 3 features a new processor, claiming to be at least five times faster than their previous flagship device, the Roku 2 XD. The 1080p HD capable device features dual band Wi-Fi and more than 750 channels with a new user interface layout and ability to stream services like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Pandora.

This device features new innovations including a remote control with a headphone jack, allowing its user to have private listening while streaming, and motion control for easy use while playing games.

One downside of this stout device some will find annoying is the lack of YouTube and poor local file support.

Apple TV What competition would be fair if Apple wasn’t there? Apple TV, created

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by the same people that brought you the iPhone and Mac, features a user interface that is stark and clean. The device features the same A5 processor found in the iPhone 4S, and 1080p HD streaming. The hockey puck-like box allows users who use other Apple products functionality other devices cannot. These functions include the opportunity to stream your media from your iPhone or iPad to your TV, dual screens, and mirroring from your mobile devices and computer, basically turning your television into a second screen for easier viewing.

While the device offers clean user interface controls and compatibility with other Apple devices, Apple TV has a downside as well. There is considerably less content for streaming compared to Roku 3, and the over-simplified remote.

Playstation 3 Before you say it, yes, this is a gaming console. While some view the PS3 as simply a gaming platform, there is a growing trend of people that are using it as there home theater Swiss Army Knife. The device allows users to play games, watch DVDs and Blu-rays and yes, run streaming services like Netflix and Hulu Plus.

Due to the open nature of the system, it does not require a monthly payment to access the internet. The system is easily navigated using the game controller and the simple internet connection.

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Xbox 360 Rounding out another gaming center jack-of-all-trades system is Microsoft’s contribution to the gaming world.

The original Xbox 360 was one of the first systems to really challenge Sony’s stronghold on television consoles. The system allows its users easy navigation with a Windows Live tile interface and downloadable content.

However, like all good things there is a checkmark in the cons side of the list.

Xbox 360 requires a monthly fee of $8 to access the internet based apps like Netflix or Xbox Live. After the fee, the users must also pay for the services they want to stream. — Travis Kipper

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