The Nancys were friends for years, part of a birthday group, and when one Nancy was ready to retire asked, "Who is ready to share a house with me?" The other Nancy said, "I am." The "two …
Hopscotch and the Art of Making Friends
Hopscotch. We played the game every day after school. We played it on the sidewalks and in the playgrounds outside the eighteen-floor brick building that was our home in Brooklyn, New York. We played …
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A Smart Way Out of Loneliness
Loneliness is painful. This is not a metaphor. The pain of loneliness lights up the same parts of the brain as physical pain. When you experience the pain of hunger you go and find some …
Twin Oaks Communities Conference that Could Change Your Life
The Twin Oaks Community, forty minutes from the city Charlottesville, Virginia hosts an annual conference on intentional communities. Its a conference that discusses a few different styles of shared …
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“I’m Bourgeois Now,” Says the Former Commune Member
Richard doesn’t look like a former commune member with his starched oxford shirt, fancy watch and short-hair. “I’m bourgeois now, but I’m a hippie inside,” he says. The commune he helped to …
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How Co-op Housing Works for this Blind Person
Harriotte herself is so capable, enthusiastic, warm and independent that it is easy to forget she is blind. As she says, “my friends will leave me on a curb” not remembering that she can’t see. She …
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