The family is alive and well — just different
Note: While I continue to write a freelance column every other week for the Traverse City Record-Eagle, where my column has appeared for about 17 years, it will no longer be posted online there, at my request, to avoid a possible conflict with my regular job. While the topics often don’t have anything to do with the theme of this blog, I thought I would post them here to make them available online (I know, for all two people who were following it online).
“La famiglia e finita.”
I understand enough to know what she’s said, but she translates, “The family is dead.” I’m talking with an older woman, a cousin of a cousin of a cousin who descended from the same town in Italy where my grandma was born. I’m calling her because I am interested in information on places to stay there. Read more »
About Kathy Gibbons
Award-winning newspaper features editor and lifestyle columnist Kathy Gibbons writes columns and blogs about doing whatever it takes to get a job and pay the bills.
Whether that means reinventing yourself, overhauling your skill set or changing the way you look at the world and go about searching for work, it can be a new game when you find yourself unemployed at an age, in a field and/or in a job market where it seems there are more obstacles than opportunities. Gibbons’ goals are to share experiences, offer tips from experts, HR professionals and job seekers and otherwise explore what works — and what doesn’t. She believes we are all in this together, and that together, we can help each other.
Gibbons lives in Michigan, where she has worked in public relations management for hospitals and community colleges, and most recently, was a newspaper features editor and lifestyle columnist.
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