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The C word
I’ve been traveling a lot the past few months. I’ve seen old friends and made new ones. I met up with a friend, Claire, who visited me a few years ago. She had remembered, but I had forgotten, that we … Continue reading
Scapegoat in the Family
One of my pet peeves is when people in cohousing call it a family. It isn’t but if you want to go there you have to be honest. There are all types of families. Some are the Brady Bunch and … Continue reading
Guest Blog Post – I’m not the only one!
Whenever I think I just had a “bad experience” as two cohousers have told me, I think of my friend all the way across the country. She moved into a cohousing that is over 10 years old, so mine being … Continue reading
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Why did I move into and want cohousing in the first place?
Flower asked me why I moved into cohousing in the first place. I looked at my first posts and realized I never did write that. So, I looked at my notes and found this draft. I will post it now: … Continue reading
The Buck Stops Nowhere
Even if it’s not a big problem, cohousing moves at glacial speed. Everything has to be decided as a group. However, I recently noticed that means they can tell you to f off in a way that shirks their responsibility. … Continue reading
Hard Candy Christmas
On the show Friends, Monica makes candy to get to know the neighbors. I don’t understand why we don’t try more to get to know our neighbors in general. They didn’t know her name and called her Candy Lady but … Continue reading
Cranky Christmas Neighbors
Christmas with the Kranks is a movie which pretty much follows the short story Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. I usually listen to the story on Audible and watch the movie every year but they are pretty close so sometimes, … Continue reading
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Being right is so wrong
I was on a zoom recently with lots of communitarians (cohousers, intentional community residents and wannabes). One person said that they noticed that people who didn’t fit into cohousing moved out within one year. I asked what made them not … Continue reading
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Will we all be shamed, Monica Lewinsky?
I googled public humiliation. I was trying to see how others dealt with being a scapegoat. I came across a great article written by Monica Lewinsky. She knows a thing or two about this. I admire her work to stop … Continue reading
So this is Christmas, Yoko Ono?
Why do so many people hate Yoko Ono? I think it has to do with the Beatles breaking up. Maybe the other band members didn’t like her but I bet there were other reasons than just one of the member’s … Continue reading
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