• Monday, April 19th, 2010
Instead of the typical “every man for himself” ideology, my husband Howard and I have joined forces with 3 other writers and members of our cohousing community in an effort to win the Next Top Spiritual Author contest.
Susan McFee, Daniel Lindenberger, Lauren Plaviak, Miriam Evers & Howard Staples
Susan McFee, Daniel Lindenberger and Lauren Plaviak have been meeting regularly for over a year as part of a strong writing group. Howard and I have been writing on our own and the contest catalyzed our desire to continue reading “Neighbors Collaborate in Next Top Spiritual Author Contest”
• Sunday, July 19th, 2009
In my last post I described how a vivid vision in a book helped inspire my husband and me to launch our dream of living in community. That book was “Cohousing – A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves” by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett. The community we created was WindSong Cohousing in Langley (near Vancouver) BC. Our cohousing community includes singles, couples and families of all ages. Our residents range in age from 3 months to over 70 years old.
While our community attracts many seniors who love the opportunity to be around children, there are some seniors who would not like this intergenerational cohousing model. Babies crying and little children running around can be a noisy experience for some people.
Luckily for those seniors who would prefer a different configuration, author Chuck Durrett is back with a book geared specifically to seniors. Here, in his own words, he introduces his latest book about a community approach to independent living. continue reading Senior Cohousing makes senior years healthy, social and stimulating
• Friday, July 03rd, 2009
My husband Howard and I were still dating when my man first started talking about living in community. I was horrified! Surely that meant living in a commune with only a private bedroom and sharing everything else! Indeed, he was already living like that in a little old house in a residential neighbourhood far from the centre of town with two house mates and the only privacy his bedroom. This was not for me. I lived on the top floor of a brand new luxury condo with two bedrooms in the West End of Vancouver. I was living alone and loving it!
“I could never have just a bedroom and share everything else!” I told him. “I want a house for my own family – preferably on the water.”
However, as strange as Howard’s ideas of community living seemed to me, I couldn’t help falling in love with him. I hoped that there would be a way to resolve our conflicting desires that would work for both of us.
A short time later a man taking one of my workshops said to me, “Miriam, there is a way that you can have privacy and Howard can have community and continue reading Deliberate Creation of a Dream Neighbourhood
