How do you get community? It was a topic of a very interesting conversation last night. We had Jack and Ellie who have developed a senior living community in Elon, NC in the mid-1980’s. Bob and Pam were early pioneers in the American co-housing movement in the mid-1990’s. And Ellen and Steve, about to embark […]
The good news, the image above is not Majic. The bad news, we heard yesterday from Ellie that reports of Majic’s relaunch are greatly exaggerated. She is still “on the hard,” (not in the water.) The nautical gods have conspired against Ellie and Jack, an experience most boat-owners are all too familiar with. The boat-works says that the […]
Until Ellen leaves her job at Associated Clinic of Psychology on July 17th, and then some, we probably won’t see much posting from her. She has, however, suggested that her “tag-line” from Ellen and Steve’s Excellent Adventure will be: Postcards from My Edge More to come…
Ellen and I have been talking with many of our friends who have spent time in Ecuador. Shout-outs to Chip and Rosa, Meg and Don, and Anne and Phil. We are learning a great deal about Ecuador, and are consequently re-thinking some of our original assumptions. It looks like it is a stunningly beautiful country. […]
Jack has sent us a memo on our East Coast cruising adventure, and Ellie has sent us some background on the good ship “Majic.” The name is assembled from the initials of children. The boat splashes today, weather permitting. It has been out of the water for 4 years, so the wooden hull will need […]
Yesterday was my last class volunteering as a tutor at the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning. Over the last semester I spent 6 hours each week in a beginning English class. Our students were primarily adults from Eastern African countries. Each student gave me a thank you card at the end of class. […]
One of the biggest decisions we need to make is whether to rent or sell our “new” condo. We’ve been in it for about a year now, and it is truly fabulous. Upon weighing the pros and cons, we have put the place up for sale. Our neighbor Sue Noyes is the realtor. We took […]
Ellen’s cousins Ellie and Jack have recently restored a vintage 42 foot Richardson cabin cruiser. The work was done at the Cayuga Wooden Boat Works in Cayuga, New York. Ellie and Jack have asked us to join them and their professional skipper to move the boat out to Martha’s Vineyard in June. We embark on […]
Ellen and Steve have been invited to serve in the US Peace Corps in South Africa pending medical and legal clearance. We will “stage” on January 20th, 2016, probably in Philadelphia. From there we travel to Johannesburg and then to the training location. After 10 weeks of pre-service training (PST), we will be sworn in as […]
We are hoping to spend a few months this fall in Ecuador. We’ll probably fly from Los Angeles to Quito, then spend some time travelling to Cuenca. It is said that the Ecuadorean accent is quite excellent for learning Spanish, so we plan to enroll in a school for several months. Our current front-runner is […]
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