My very own emoticon! I am so excited. My insanely brilliant friend Mateo Burtch created it to celebrate and represent a certain period of my life that he was, frankly, never really part of, but may wish he was. Click here to see it. The Merits of … [Continue reading] about
Today's Outrage Technically, this may be yesterday's outrage, but I was too tired and blissed out by community yesterday to be outraged. Today, I've recovered enough to rally. It's this: Sinclair Broadcasting Company, a huge Republican-leaning … [Continue reading] about
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 … [Continue reading] about
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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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. … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] 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 … [Continue reading] about