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Friends, I am no longer updating Life in Chicago . Thanks to those who read my postings and offered comments. I hope to continue these stories at another Web site in the near future. Stay tuned... David
O n a cold, rainy night, a placid calm can be found 36 stories above the ground. There, in a carpeted room at the top of a Lake Shore Dr. highrise in the Kenwood neighborhood, far above a sea of lights expanding southwards, eight men and women dressed in white robes sit on their knees, waiting for Jamie Sensei to take the floor. A thin woman with dark hair and a soft smile, Jamie walks to the middle of the makeshift mat set out for this evening’s event. She, too, wears a white robe, though a dark blue skirt
By this time, Zimron had taken another significant turn in life, too. Having grown up with no exposure to martial arts, she began in 1975 to explore aikido, the Japanese practice of peace-minded self-defense. “When I first saw aikido,” she recalls, “I heard that the teacher spoke in metaphors of nature— and moved like a flowing river. And the atmosphere in class was cooperative and harmonious, just like the art itself.” Yet she remained skeptical. “I went to see for myself, cynically,” she continues, “and I
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