| RE: Profiles of list participants A-K | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (robsan microsoft.com)
|
|
| Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 16:35:36 PDT | |
Ok gentle readers please don't shoot me but here are two messages
containing all the profiles I stashed over the last 3 months or so. I
have organized them alphabetically and done a small amount of editing
on some to delete null responses. I also did the henious act of
removing personal addresses - you can email folks for their address if
you didn't keep their original post.
Angela Alston
angela <angela [at] sunshine.io.com>
I'm an MFA student at the University of Texas at Austin, finishing up my
thesis film.
I'm interested in cohousing for 2 reasons:
1) I hope to live in an intentional community in the near future (I lived
in group houses for a long time--now I'd like to make more of a
commitment to the people I live with)
2) I plan to shoot a documentary on affordable housing in the next year.
Most cohousing doesn't seem to be that--_I_ couldn't afford a $150,000
house--but there do seem to be a few examples, like N Street. In other
ways, I find it a very appealing concept which I hope to be able to
include in my video.
I spent most of my adult life in Seattle before coming to Austin, and
hope to find a community there, or perhaps Olympia or Portland.
Judy Baxter,
-- e-mail: baxter [at] epivax.epi.umn.edu
- Monterey Cohousing Community, (MoCoCo)
-- Twin Cities Area, Minneapolis/St.Paul Minnesota
-- Resident of the "mansion"- the 1st 8 homes in a rehab Georgian
building built
as a retirment home in 1924 - developing 15 new legal condos - look like
townhomes, on the property
-- One of founders of Twin Cities Cohousing Network, in 1990!
-- Getting close to final prices on the 1st 7 townhouses, and construction
loan - and feeling like developers! (I never wanted to be a developer)
Joani Blank.
Joaniblank [at] aol.com
I live in the Doyle Street CoHousing Community in
Emeryville, CA. Emeryville is just at the east end of the Bay Bridge which
goes from SF to Berkeley/Oakland. We are a small (12 units) urban community
living in a renovated industrial building. Seventeen adults ranging in age
from 31 to 70 live here with four children (9 mo. to 5 yrs), one teenager,
one dog and several cats. We share three meals a week and have one
association meeting per month.
I am a currently single woman in my mid fifties. I am
the founder of Good Vibrations, San Francisco's sex toy and book store and
mail order service.
Name: Buzz Burrell
E-Mail: 72253.2101 [at] compuserve.com
Community (if any): Geneva
Location: 5 miles N of Lyons, CO (25 miles N of Boulder)
Birthdate: 10/31/51
Stage of Development: Option on 176 acres, taking our time figuring out
what to do with it.
What I do for money: Property development and investment
What I do for fun: Run, ski, bike, climb, dance, volleyball (currently)
Favorite thing about community: I can't control the outcome
Worst thing about community: I can't control the outcome
If I was in charge I would: $5/gallon tax on gasoline
Barbara Bruns
barb [at] meaddata.com
Born 7/19/50
Marital status: Single
Family (children, pets, etc) 3 "kids", 21 and in college, 18 and starting
college, 17 and looking for a college
Education (where, what): Still 30 hours short of a Bachelor's
(Liberal Arts/English), Xavier U., Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Stage of Development: Exploring the idea ... figuring out
how to introduce it to the most conservative city in the midwest
(remember the Mapplethorpe controversy? That was Cincinnati.)
What I do for money: Technical writer/editor. Write and edit
hardcopy manuals and online help.
What I do for fun: Run (4 marathons, 1 triathlon), bike, ski, swim,
read, garden, ride (horses).
Favorite thing about community: The opportunity to restore the joy of
living among people who know each other, can learn from one another,
and care for one another. The nagging suspicion that a byproduct of
such a place could be a slight reversal in the degradation of our society.
Worst thing about community: That it really COULD be like an
extended family: "All of you stop that right now or I'm going to
have to turn this community around and go back!!"
Name: Jerry Callen
Email address: jcallen [at] world.std.com
Personal Info: Cofounder of the now-defunct Rose Tree cohousing group
in eastern Massachusetts. I'm still interested in cohousing, but I just
can't do it at this point in my life. I am especially interested in
the notion of "cohousing in place" (a la N Street). I am married and
have two children (born in '87 and '89).
Name: Alan Carpenter
E-Mail: acarpent [at] Direct.CA
Community (if any): Eco Village Association in South Surrey
Location: 20 miles East of Vancouver, B.C.
Birthdate: 13/7/48
Stage of Development: Option on 16 acres, doing feasiblity studies
What I do for money: Cohousing Development consultant
What I do for fun: Squash, tennis, hiking and Cohousing
Favorite thing about community: Having my friends close by
Worst thing about community: Difficulty in getting it started
If I was in charge I would: Have all land zoned "Eco Village" and give all
developers a hand out on how use the "Cohousing"
model for neighborhood design.
Name: Tonya Chavis
E-Mail: tc511 [at] polaris.net
Community (if any): Day Star Community
Location: 6 minutes from downtown Tallahassee and less than 15 minutes from
Florida State University (FSU) and Florida A. and M. Univerisity (FAMU).
Stage of Development: Three houses built, plus one lot sold, with room for
approximately 10 more homes and a community building.
Birthdate: 10/11/54
What I do for money: Attorney
What I do for fun: Throwing pots (ceramics), Church stuff, Irish Sister-City
stuff.
Favorite thing about community: Elizabeth (age 9) and her dog Annie - they
live across the courtyard. Elizabeth plays a mean game of 3-d tic, tac, toe.
Worst thing about community: We are all too busy with our professional lives
and socialize infrequently.
If I was in charge, I would: Have more potluck dinners, more celebrations,
and get every household on-line.
> Name: David Chung
> E-Mail: chungd [at] ugrad.unbc.edu
> Birthdate: April 05, 1970
> Marital status: Just recently engaged - she proposed (got a ring too!)
> Family (children, pets, etc): Give me a few years
> Education (where, what): UNBC - presently doing my MSc in Community
Planning, SFU - B.A in Geography
> Stage of Development: Trying to convince my fiancee, Colette, that we
want to live in a cohousing community
> What I do for money: Starving grad student
> What I do for fun: Fun? - I'm a student for crying out loud; spending
time with Colette (live 800km apart); cyling;
camping; hiking
> Favorite thing about community: People
> Worst thing about community:
> If I was in charge, I would: Plan sustainable and regenerative
communities; take back the streets for
pedestrians and cyclists; charge full
cost accounting for building of roads and
highways
Name: Diana Clarke
Email: clarke [at] interacces.com
Birthdate: 6/17/55
Family: Two kids (daughter-10, son-8), two cats, one frog, two cocoons
Education: U of IL, Northern IL U., U of Life... etc
What I do for money: Speech Therapist -- public schools, multiply
handicapped children
What I do for fun: rollerblade, ice skate, home improvement projects,
read, play with the kids, be outside
Favorite thing about community: "community" atmostphere with all its
positive and negative qualities
Worst thing about community: I'm not in one
> Name: W. Shedrick Coleman
> E-Mail: Shedarch [at] gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu & Shedarch [at] aol.com
> Birthdate: 6-27-63
> Marital status: Happily to Charmell for 8 years.
> Family (children, pets, etc): Two sons; Eric & Zachary
> Education (where, what): Architecture, Cornell Univ.
> What I do for money: 1. University Architect 2. Architect w/ private
practice
> What I do for fun: Play w/ my kids, avid reader, give my wife attention,
participate in activities w/ extended family and friends.
> Favorite thing about community: My present subdivision is no community.
> Worst thing about community: Wood fences dividing yards and the resulting
confinement of the inhabitants of the neighborhood. I've lived in my
neighborhood 7.5 years and have no friends there.
> If I was in charge, I would: give hope to instill trust in others so that
we might learn to appreciate what we have to offer one another. I would
teach people to think for themselves before the follow the advice of others
blindly.
> Name: Vicky de Monterey
> E-Mail: dryad [at] halcyon.com
> Birthdate: 11/11/59
> Marital status: not
> Family (children, pets, etc)
1 child, many pets, almost live-in partner (we live in different
countries, but we're together every weekend)
> Education (where, what):
Six colleges/universities east/west/midwest, Umpteen majors,
no degrees but much brainfood: Geology, theatre, public policy, design,
UNIX/electronics, and _this_ year...
> Location: Pacific Northwest, my adopted home
> Stage of Development: the whirlpool-of-ideas stage
> What I do for money: Install/implement/train MIS systems
> What I do for fun: random eccentric field trips; kidstuff; voracious
reader, traveler.
> Favorite thing about community: intentional extended family for
support, growth, and sharing of joy. I'm the youngest of five kids,
missing my pack.
> Worst thing about community: Meetings: I grew weary of these in the
anti-nukes movement in the '70s. There are more effective ways to
communicate - why so many face to face meetings? Gather for play!
> If I was in charge, I would: Improve social support for active,
involved parenting by both genders, married or not. That's another goal
I have for cohousing and intentional community.
Dan Everett
dme [at] cs.uga.edu
Kenney Ridge Community is a subdivision under development on 132
acres near Athens, Georgia. Currently we have 12 families in the
development process, planning for 21 families in Phase 1 and up
to 38 families overall, including an unknown number of subsidized
low-income units. Lot sizes are 2-3 acres. Most current members
plan to help each other build their own homes. We stress energy
efficiency and many of us plan straw bale houses or earth sheltered
houses.
We have rehabbed an old farmhouse into a community building with
children's play areas and space for meals and meetings. We also
plan an organic community garden, nature trails, etc.
I am an assistant professor of computer science in my late 40's,
married with 3 children. I am vegetarian, a home brewer, hiker,
camper, bicyclist, occasional activist.
Name:Dan Estabrook
E-Mail:destabr [at] sa.mnet.uswest.com
Community (if any):Highline Crossing Cohousing Community, Littleton Co
Location:Next to the Highline Canal, 15 miles South of Denver, 1 mile from work
Stage of Development:2 of six condo/townhouse completed as is
commonhouse 10 units occupied, 2 more soon to be, building 2 under
construction, etc
Birthdate:7-16-51
Marital status: not
Pets: 2 cats
Education (where, what):BA + some
What I do for money:work for USWEST as service assurance technician (do
system administration on communications network elements)
What I do for fun:movies,travel,biking,hiking
Favorite thing about community:being in a beautiful place, where you know
everyone, see them often, and connect
Worst thing about community:continuous work to establish the site, sales
to prospects, having to work at job lucretive enough to pay the mortgage
If I was in charge, I would:be a meglomaniac
Karen Frayne:
Karen.Frayne [at] SONOMA.EDU
I'm a searcher, waiting for the right community, considering
coho. From what I've read, Sharingwood is my favorite coho community. I
like the idea of coho without building new, or moving into existing coho
where I could see it with my own two eyes instead of only with my inner eye.
Not ready to settle down for about 5 more years. I just moved from a group
house to a Victorian converted into apartments. Hoping to build community
with neighbors. I run a math lab at Sonoma State University, near Santa
Rosa, North of the SF Bay. I have a life companion named Bill. We are both
in our late 20's, no kids. My ethnic background is Irish, Portuguese,
English, German. I'm into writing, guitar, ceramics, math, veggie cooking,
camping, big projects that take lots of people.
Name: Christina Hilliard
E-Mail: LCH005 [at] email.mot.com
Community (if any): Commonweal-in-our-heads
Location: Waaayy the heck west of Boston to where the air is clear
and the RE prices are connected to reality.
Stage of Development: In-our-heads
Education: B.S., Boston University; approx. 10 mo. to M.S. in information
systems, Northeastern U.
Birthdate: May 1, 1955 ('Boomer in a May-basket, a tisket, a tasket)
Marital stat: Single
Family: It could happenWhat I do for money: Technical writing on
the subject of communications
What I do for fun: Basketball, bike, garden, read, build things.
Best thing about community: Hope to find out someday?
Worst thing about community: The time it takes to get it going?
If I were in charge, I would:
- MACRO: Remove government incentives from tobacoo growers and
highway construction. Apply them to education and HPV.
- MICRO: Add a codocil to Michael Mariner's mandate (that audio/video
manufacturers be required to label ports so they're readable--
no black-on-black letters allowed):
Characters shall be BIGGER THAN A PINHEAD, and shall not
WEAR OFF in less than 6 months.
Name: Larry Hogue
E-mail: lhogue [at] selway.umt.edu
Birthdate: 3/11/61
Married to Diane Willcox
Family: Son, Joshua, age 2 (Nickname "Destructo-man"). Various other
people located hither and yon (trying to get all of them hither).
Education (where, what): BA Occidental College, Los Angeles. Currently
at work on an MFA in creative writing at the University of Montana
Occupation: Writer, most recently published in _Where the Heart Is: A
Celebration of Home_, a collection of over 100 short essays. (BTW,
people on this list might want to check it out. Ed. Julienne Bennett and
Mimi Luebbermann, intro by Mollie Katzen, other writers include Linda
Hasselstrom and Dan Millman, and a percentage of the profits goes to East
Bay Habitat for Humanity -- $80,000, they hope!)
Oh! You wanted to know what I do for _money_. Certainly not writing
(tho' maybe someday)! Right now I have a teaching assistantship which
nearly pays our rent for ten months of the year; Diane brings home the
major bacon working for the non-profit downtown association.
Location: Northwest, maybe Nor Cal.
What I do for fun: Read, hike, spend too much time on the internet (this
summer anyway), listen to music (Mozart to Melissa Etheridge to Madonna)
(Bruce Cockburn and Kate Bush too, but their names didn't alliterate with
the first three), dream utopian fantasies
Favorite thing about community: Being able to show up on someone's
doorstep unannounced.
Worst thing about community: I grew up in a small northern California
town and I couldn't wait to escape the gossip, the pettiness, the way
politics were given over to real estate people, and the narrow-minded
provincialism (as I perceived it at age 18). I want a manageable-sized
community without all of those things; Missoula's pretty good as far as
that goes.
If I was in charge, I would: (Macro) Get people out of their cars and
into communities where they could work, shop, eat, and live within
walking or biking distance. I know that's an oft-repeated theme, but the
car really does seem to be responsible for so much of the waste an
alienation we have. And, as Paul Hawken said in _The Ecology of
Commerce_, after you account for all the time you put into your car,
you're really only going about 5 mph anyway. (The second and last book
plug in t=E8is "bio" -- read it if you haven't, pass it to a friend if
you have!)
Micro: Keep "Mad About You" on Thursday nights so we can watch it and
"ER" and still have the TV on only one night a week.
Name: Tess Kolney
E-Mail: kolre001 [at] maroon.tc.umn.edu
Age: Older than my teeth and younger than I'm gonna be
Marital status: Opposed
Family (children, pets, etc): When unavoidable. Oh, oh yeah, right. 1
feline companion, elderly. Many friends, faithful.
Education (where, what): when unavoidable but preferably not on the carpeting
Home Address: Minneapolis, MN
Community (if any): exists only between the electrons in cyberspace
Desired Community: A community committed to being as
low-negative-impact on the Earth as possible; a community where it is
possible to live without
having mainstream culture (including its media) forced down your throat; a
community where we were committed to learning about living with diversity
and not just giving lipservice to it (this would mean a lot of givens we
bring into living situations are not assumed to be what will happen and are
freely questioned by others, especially in the planning stages of the
community); a community which respect individuals and prefers consensus as a
way of including individual voices (not silencing or overwhelming them); a
community intentionally committed to creating an ecologically sane
alternative to mainstream America
Location: Like Minnesota, but grew up in the South. Prefer to stay here
but I guess I'm flexible.
Stage of Development: Plane of consciousness at the moment
What I do for money: Hospital administration, computer training, writing,
workshops
What I do for fun: All the above, plus go to music festivals, cook, read,
write, walk, travel, spend time in nature, attend celebrations, make
homemade gifts and art, converse, dream, do social activist stuff, learn
more about the Earth and how She functions
Favorite thing about community: People to talk to, not always having to
cook or do the dishes, being exposed to ideas I never woulda thunk up
on my own
Worst thing about community: 1)Gossip. 2) Know-it-alls. 3) Lead weights
who drag everybody else down from their dreams and potentials.
If I was in charge, I would: Run in the other direction. No, no, that's
too honest. Okay, to steal from Starhawk, I would rebuild a community along
the lines of valuing the four sacred things (earth, air, fire, water) and
the Five Criteria of True Wealth (usefulness, beauty, healing or neutral
change for the Earth, nurturing for the
- (no other messages in thread)
Results generated by Tiger Technologies Web hosting using MHonArc.