The toxic mimic of community I spent my May Day in seven hours weeding, mulching, scrubbing, drying, stretching and k'vetching with around 40 other neighbors in my cohousing community. We ranged in age from four to 78 and in ability from limited use … [Read more...] about
Archives for 2004
Highway 37 Big Truck Blues After 4 days of keeping 20 eight & nine year olds from killing themselves or each other in the wilds of Marin County, they all nearly perished today on Highway 37 when a super long truck lost control and toppled over … [Read more...] about
We Consensed! No. "Consensed" is not a word. And yet we did it. At 16:30 hours today, Southside Park Cohousing Association congratulated itself on a record-breaking achievement of concensus to spend $1800. We are the only government I'm dealing … [Read more...] about
24-Hour Consensus After months of trying, the call came. "I can have a construction crew outside your door at 9:00am Monday morning. All I need is the go-ahead and $1800 cash. Is it a go?" A go? A go?! I think. My God, it's got to be a go. … [Read more...] about
What is a blog, exactly? That's roughly the level of on-line savvy of my average reader. The answer: no earthly idea. It's short for "web-log," but you know knew that, right? It's an on-line journal. My God, man, isn't it obvious?! I won't … [Read more...] about
Where there's a Who, there's a Horton! Hey, remember that public financing bill I told you about? Horton, Levine, Longville and a last minute addition of Gene Mullin from San Mateo, voted for it in the Elections Committee Wednesday--it passed … [Read more...] about
Blog Me Flog Me Make Me Write Bad Checks Hey, thanks for signing up to receive my blog on a regular basis. Quite a vote of confidence, given how uniformly boring and tame my first few entries have been. Complaints have been issued from some … [Read more...] about
Ah-nold Intrigue: Doing what he puts his mind to, or not? Like the rest of the nation, I find it fascinating to watch Governor Arnold. Oh, not so much because he's a movie star--I only recently saw one of his movies for the first time, the one where … [Read more...] about
Political Alert--Will Horton hear a Who? Will California take its first major step towards clean public financing of elections like the voters opted for in Arizona and Maine? Tomorrow, March 20th, the California State Assembly's Elections Committee … [Read more...] about
My First Blog Ever Aha! Almost a year after my last birthday when my brother suggested I create a Blog, I create one. Wow. Here I am. My very own blog. Checkout my picture in today's Sacramento Bee front page of Metro section story "Broadway Plan … [Read more...] about