Think of it as a matchmaking service – minus the romance. Instead of love and marriage, the goals are cost cutting and companionship. Popular elsewhere in the nation, home sharing has arrived in the foothills. A new grant-funded program of Catholic Charities aims to match “providers” – those with a room to spare or who
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Gloria Mooney, 73, wants to rent out the empty bedroom in her East Sonora mobile home. She needs the extra money to boost her shrinking disability income and keep her home. Plus, she admits, “I’m tired of being alone.” She signed up with Catholic Charities’ new Home Share program (see separate story) hoping to find
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In the long-ago days when I could stay up past midnight, I once found myself on the wrong side of the dead-bolted door of a West Philadelphia row house at 1:30 in the morning. I started pounding. The door shook. The house shook. Either the door or my hand was going to break, but I
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