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Some of you heard that my original housing situation stopped working a while ago -- personal and farm conflicts made it a bit of an unpleasant place to live. I've been living in a room in a tiny house, but I applied for another house on farm. I was just told yesterday that I was… Continue reading Exciting News

For the sake of clarity, which is usually, I find, a good thing: I don't know how far the word has gotten that I have a boyfriend... so I'm choosing to correct it with my blog rather than trying to catch it individually. I do not, in fact, have a boyfriend. I have a friendboy… Continue reading Correction of Assumptions

As Shizuka Arakawa skated flawlessly to gold in Torino, as Sasha Cohen came in a disappointing second, as Bode Miller got disqualified right and left, and as China won their first Winter Olympic medal, the real drama was being played out in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachussetts... The opening ceremony this year, Wed, Feb. 22,… Continue reading Winter Olympics, Gould Farm Style

Poem written by Katie, GF volunteer extraordinaire... we never know what kinds of creative, odd, random, hilarious things are going to come out of her super-active brain... To be sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" or some other waltz (and still a bit unfinished): Llamas and peanuts and happy nice people who love… Continue reading Katie has such an active mind…

It's been a while, eh? (that seems to lately have been the first line of all my IMs and e-mails, unfortunately) Things here have been complicated of late, but nonetheless fulfilling and important. The clinical director left the farm rather abruptly, causing some difficult discussions among staff. Two guests were asked to leave the farm… Continue reading Ah, time…

It's been a busy and intense month, and yet it's been lots of fun. There are many traditions at the farm around the holidays, and the residential team, as farm activities planners, was in charge of coordinating all of them. The biggest tradition was "bringing down the tree" in which we sing carols as we… Continue reading I finally get around to saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”

The most interesting thing going on recently was my trip to New York. I had been to Ellis Island once before but had otherwise not been to the Big Apple until I went last Sunday with Seth and Katie. We drove to a train station and then took public transportation the rest of the day.… Continue reading New York!

This new link (both in the title of the blog and on the sidebar) is the website of the United Church of Christ I go to in Monterey. Just FYI. =) The picture on the website is the entire "downtown" of Monterey. The tallest building is the church (called the Monterey meeting house). The second… Continue reading Monterey UCC

A friend of mine just talked to me about how we choose each day how we are going to respond to life... Ah, how true... And yet how hard to live by! Isn't it so much easier to blame other people for our difficulties / emotions / attitudes? God grant the grace... I am currently… Continue reading Attitude Check

I'm enjoying the fall here, even though the leaves aren't as beautiful as normal (so they say... I still think they're great). The summer's been dryer and warmer than it generally is, making the leaves reticent to change color which, some predict, will make most of them simply turn brown and fall off. Still, there… Continue reading Farm Life in the Fall