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The Next 100 Years

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Life and all That, Ponderings

My plan is to live to at least 140 years old. When I tell people this, they often think of older relatives in nursing homes or suffering from illness and cringe. They think of being old and infirm, of being trapped inside a decrepit body. That’s our past and...

“Free range” is a variable

by | Apr 15, 2015 | Ponderings

Everyone I know has posted or commented about “free range parenting” lately, due to several articles about it and a current case where parents are being charged with child neglect for letting them walk to a local park alone. It is an important topic regarding how, as...

Writing About (my) Rape

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Ponderings

NOTE: I’ll be talking about my own rape, in specific but not intimate detail; warning for if that is a trigger subject for you. An artist friend who was putting together a collaborative art show on rape culture asked me to contribute. I said I would try to write...

All hope abandon…

by | Mar 19, 2015 | Ponderings

I posted a link to an article that really resonated with a lot of people I know. It talks about the confusion of not having a set, clear path in front you, and how we often shape our lives by the decisions we’ve made in the past rather than our expectations for the...

Artist co-housing concept

by | Feb 1, 2015 | Ponderings

I’ve had different conversations with different friends lately about the idea of artist communes, which kind of makes my skin itch because I’m just not that much of a hippy. Yet I’ve been enamored for decades now with the “new” concept of cohousing*, which...