Monthly Archives: September 2007
Well!
The subject of collective living seems to have hit a nerve, judging by the flurry of comments about our household on another local blog. We’ve actually been compared to the Manson family! Crazy.
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Collective Living 101
When I came downstairs this morning I found a note on the whiteboard in the kitchen. It was from Will to everyone: Is it possible to “reserve” the washing machine for Wednesday morning? he wrote. I need to do house … Continue reading
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Collective Living FAQs
Comments and questions from people who have lived collectively or would like to know more about it. If you have an answer to these and any other questions –or questions of your own–please join in: Who cooks? Do you share … Continue reading
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Collective Living Nuts and Bolts
I wish there was more information out there for people interested in collective living, but here are some good places to start: consensus decision-making intentional communities wiki NASCO
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Residency Project, Marietta College, November 2005, Part 1
Two years ago some of my housemates and I, plus some people from another collective house in Greensboro, spent a weekend demonstrating collective living at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. We set up in a student lounge and did the … Continue reading
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Residency Project, Marietta College, November 2005, Part 2
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Welcome
I went out to dinner with my friend Elizabeth the other night and found myself sitting next to one of her graduate student assistants. We introduced ourselves and he said “Aren’t you Elizabeth’s friend that runs that house with all … Continue reading
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The best seat in our house is definitely The Invisible Chair. Mark invented it a couple of years ago and we've got the prototype in the living room. Most days it's just a chair--we sit on it to use the house computer, we pull it out on the porch when we need an extra place to sit, visiting children have crayoned on it--but on evenings when people sit around playing music, it reveals 
All six hens are laying now--brown eggs from the two Barred Rocks and these lovely little blue-green eggs from the Americaunas.
