I got a credit card in high school because one of my friends told me that I should start working on my credit rating before I left home for college.  She was right, although maybe ahead of her time.  Actually getting the credit card gave me the opportunity to make up for the somewhat inadequate [...]

A good memoir should do at least one of two simple things: make me laugh or cry. A really good one may be able to do both. I would still consider recommending a memoir that does neither of these if it is an interesting story with good analysis. Unfortunately, Friedman’s book is [...]

I am really into intimacy.  I have plenty of friends that I have casual friends with that I see around, but my close friends are people that I can say anything to. And they can say anything to me.  And we do. I love to be up in people’s business and well, they don’t really [...]

Knowing Sarah
I met Sarah’s mom before I met Sarah.  We were at an earthquake preparedness meeting where we were discussing, as a community, how to be prepared and connected to people in our own neighborhoods and how to get in touch with people in other neighborhoods if lines of communication go down.  At that point, [...]

The story actually begins February 22, 2006, but I really didn’t want to ruin such a great title by being picky.  It begins with the day I received a GPS for my birthday and became a geocacher. As a geocacher, I became obsessed with the idea of leaving no cache unfound.  I couldn’t consider passing [...]

My friend K- has been doing some intensive Nonviolent Communication (NVC) work and invited me to this workshop.  Not knowing anything about NVC, but knowing that I need all the tools that I can get to improve my parenting skills, I decided to go for it.  The workshop consisted mostly of introducing participants to the [...]

I have seen this movie twice. I first found out about it because it was directed Jonathan Karsh, who I share many friend with from Carmichael, CA.  I went to a reunion and people were talking about his upcoming film premier. I didn’t see it at the time, but when I began to get interested [...]

Because J- is recovering from a vasectomy, our decision is at the forefront of our minds.  Here are more reflections on a topic already discussed here.
J- and I were discussing a friend and her decision about how she will become a parent. We reflected on our own back and forth about whether we wanted to [...]

Over the years, I have participated in many collective working and living projects.  Several years ago, I was recruited by a group called the Matchbook Learning Project. We sponsored classes for adults in the anarchist community.  The vision was a way to keep people in community in times of life that it is harder to [...]

When my father was in a coma in the emergency room a few weeks ago, I initially didn’t know what to do. I knew that I wanted to go down there, but I wasn’t sure why. I hadn’t been close to my father in over 10 years. He had done things to my [...]