Cohousing-L Mailing List: My Bio - Again

[Collaborative Housing Society (cohosoc]

Due to (on-going) problems with my local server, this may not have been
posted before the recent and strangely enjoyable break, so here it is again:

Name:  Russell Mawby

Birthdate:  March 24, 1960

E-Mail:  cohosoc [at] web.apc.org

Home Address:  105 Stephen Dr., Toronto, Ontario  M8Y 3M8

Community (if any):  we (Jill, married 7 years) have been able to find at
least some community where ever we have lived, or has community found us?

Location:  Southern Ontario, specifically east of Toronto, is where we feel
"at home", but for now we live in Toronto - a liveable city if there ever
was one.

Stage of Development:  On-going!

What I do for money:  1) Currently work as an architect for a big, fairly
well-known practice, but 2) increasingly venturing out on my own, to write,
teach, and help (re)build the greater community I live in.

What I do for fun:  Part 2 of the above, plus read, hike, and just generally
live a life

Favorite thing about community:    The surprises, both wonderful and not so,
that help me understand who I am, and what living is, can be and should be.

Worst thing about community:  how difficult we sometimes make it.

If I was in charge, I would: give everyone a one-way ticket somewhere, take
away their credit cards, and see what happens.  This should probably happen
around age 18, but anytime will do. . .