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re: how I happened to come across your blog entry:...

2005-08-15T09:58:00.000-06:00

re: how I happened to come across your blog entry: I found it because I have Technorati and other automatic searches set up to alert me whenever anybody in the world even mumbles the word "cohousing". ;-) Seriously, the saved searches are helpful for finding new perspectives like yours and weaving them into the threads of other conversations, it's all too easy to get into the

You just made me cry, Girlfriend. I just posted a...

2005-08-13T19:54:00.000-06:00

You just made me cry, Girlfriend. I just posted a thing on my blog, not even 10 minutes ago, about our friendship. I accidentally got all smooshy. Then, I wondered what was up in your blog, and I read this. Great minds, you know... Thank you for coming to get me. Thank you for chatting for a half hour in the dark. Thank you for being one of my very best non-assigned seating friends. Big,

Thanks. After reading your post, I now want to li...

2005-08-09T09:00:00.000-06:00

Thanks. After reading your post, I now want to live in a co-housing community, and Kori hates my guts.

There's a co-housing community just south of us in Woodlawn, btw.

Whoah. If I had imagined any cohousing residents w...

2005-08-07T23:17:00.000-06:00

Whoah. If I had imagined any cohousing residents were reading, I probably would have been more circumspect in my comments. I agree -- talking to people I don't like at first would be much better than avoiding them or making fun of them on the Internet. It would just wear me out to do so, though. Heck, it wears me out to spend too much time with people I do like.
Can I ask how you happened to

2005-08-07T22:08:00.000-06:00

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Thanks for your perspective. In my experience livi...

2005-08-07T22:06:00.000-06:00

Thanks for your perspective. In my experience living in two cohousing communities, the secret is: You don't have to love all of your neighbors, just like enough of them to get along. Some people I see, others I seek out, others I avoid. The physical design makes it harder to avoid people, so it makes it worth it to actually (gasp) talk to them and get to the root of what's getting in the