My Simple Life (Dream On)
This is where my family, friends, and other completely uninterested people keep track of me and my opinions. Posts are fairly infrequent. A more active blog is A Deeper Democracy in which I discuss a form of governance called Sociocracy or Dynamic Governance that it is based on the belief that everyone should have the ability to consent to the conditions of their lives, at home and at work. It is based on consensus decision-making and uses a governance structure based on cybernetics, the science of communications and control.
On this site you will find:
Pass the Olives, a peripatetic series of mostly memoirish essays
Useful Stuff, which along with Links, is my repository of useful things I don’t want to get lost on my desk — which does not have a search function. You might find them useful too.
Read This Book! I recommend anything listed. No padding to get hits. I can’t link to everyone’s local library but I can link to Amazon so I do. The referral checks help feed my pet plants.
Cohousing, where I spend a lot of time spinning my wheels on community governance and (ir)rational living considerations. See Takoma Village Cohousing for general information.
Kidlit represents writing ventures that mostly lurk.
I’m still in Washington DC, living in Takoma Village Cohousing, a community to which I moved in 2000. I’ve now lived here longer than I’ve ever lived anywhere and it does feel different to be in one place so long. For example, I’m going to have to do some move-everything-off-the-shelf dusting for the first time. I used to just move.
Daughter Shannah conveniently lives in Manhattan so I can still visit. She has a lovely life on Second Avenue in Gramercy Park. Her blog is hilarious, Tales of a Recovering TVaholic. I had no idea she could write so well or was so funny, but the new generation of Tweeters and Facebookers is a new generation of Tweeters and Facebookers. You find out things about them that you never thought of asking.
Son Jason and wife, Lindsay, now have Alexa, who was a year old in May. Alexa looks just like Jason, as adorable as he was and as sweet as Lindsay. Skype is not quite up for her though. She bounces around so much she’s a blur on the screen. They now live closer to Brynne, Jason’s adopted daughter who is eleven. She is beautiful and tall and a very good artist. Very promising but being a top model pays better. She is that tall. And that thin.
As for me, I write most of the time — websites, books, policies, email, some kidlit — and do some crafts. No painting, no exhibiting. Much email that disappears into cyberspace, sort of like rocking on the porch. Anything closer to a simple life still eludes me, but I would actually die of it anyway.
If you are one of those completely uninterested from my past, please contact me. Let me know what you are up to, or not up to. I particularly enjoy hearing from former students.
