Post by Janet Pierce on Dec 8, 2011 9:58:47 GMT -6
I'm a 66 yr old single (divorced) nurse who's been at that career for 46 years and presently employed by Vanderbilt Children's Hospital as a 'phone triage' nurse. I'm the one who calls worried parents back after hours when their kids are ill and I help them decide where to go and what to do. I love my job which I took after 45 1/2 years of hands on neonatal and pediatric critical patient care. I was involved years ago in the development of staff self management groups, at Vanderbilt, that use consensus decision making.
I've lived in Nashville, now, going on 30years, so I call it home. I grew up in Anchorage, AK and I've lived in Nevada, Michigan, Colorado and West Virginia before moving here.
I grew up an avid camper and hiker, which I still do as the knees permit. I like to bicycle and I ride a big touring motorcycle all over the country, often with fellow members of N. America's oldest woman's motorcycling organization.
Before moving to TN I was raising my children in CO and WV where we were a part of the 'homesteading' movement in the 70's. Many of our friends were in commune type living and I learned the good and bad of that. I look forward to living amongst people who value living lightly on this earth and I have cooking, gardening skills that include canning and crafts. I love music although I've not played for many years.
I now live in Donelson. My daughter lives in nearby Hermitage near Sallie and Sue and she runs a mortgage title company. We recently celebrated her 40th birthday. My oldest son lives in Houston, TX with his wife and two daughters and is an engineer for Shell Oil and my youngest son, who is also married with two daughters, is teaching at Centre College in KY.
I've traveled a good bit, both with my job, where I took temp. nursing positions to live and work near family as well as pleasure and business trips to Europe, the Middle East and recently to South America. While working in the Boston area I subleased a condo at Cambridge Cohousing. When I started looking forward to maybe retiring I knew I liked that situation. I found the cohousing web site and since there were no cohousing neighborhoods in TN, I was researching a condo in the Highland Crossing Cohousing Community in the Denver area, near my sister. Stuart and I drove out to the Cohousing Conference in Boulder in June '10, where we met Diana Sullivan and we began meeting with her and other 'cohousing interested' people.
So, here I am, almost a year and a half later, watching it grow, presently fixing up my house, to put on the market in the Spring, and hoping to be a founding member of Nashville's first co housing neighborhood. I was, and still am, interested in the Hermitage property, but I would be on board with an urban neighborhood if it develops first.
I've lived in Nashville, now, going on 30years, so I call it home. I grew up in Anchorage, AK and I've lived in Nevada, Michigan, Colorado and West Virginia before moving here.
I grew up an avid camper and hiker, which I still do as the knees permit. I like to bicycle and I ride a big touring motorcycle all over the country, often with fellow members of N. America's oldest woman's motorcycling organization.
Before moving to TN I was raising my children in CO and WV where we were a part of the 'homesteading' movement in the 70's. Many of our friends were in commune type living and I learned the good and bad of that. I look forward to living amongst people who value living lightly on this earth and I have cooking, gardening skills that include canning and crafts. I love music although I've not played for many years.
I now live in Donelson. My daughter lives in nearby Hermitage near Sallie and Sue and she runs a mortgage title company. We recently celebrated her 40th birthday. My oldest son lives in Houston, TX with his wife and two daughters and is an engineer for Shell Oil and my youngest son, who is also married with two daughters, is teaching at Centre College in KY.
I've traveled a good bit, both with my job, where I took temp. nursing positions to live and work near family as well as pleasure and business trips to Europe, the Middle East and recently to South America. While working in the Boston area I subleased a condo at Cambridge Cohousing. When I started looking forward to maybe retiring I knew I liked that situation. I found the cohousing web site and since there were no cohousing neighborhoods in TN, I was researching a condo in the Highland Crossing Cohousing Community in the Denver area, near my sister. Stuart and I drove out to the Cohousing Conference in Boulder in June '10, where we met Diana Sullivan and we began meeting with her and other 'cohousing interested' people.
So, here I am, almost a year and a half later, watching it grow, presently fixing up my house, to put on the market in the Spring, and hoping to be a founding member of Nashville's first co housing neighborhood. I was, and still am, interested in the Hermitage property, but I would be on board with an urban neighborhood if it develops first.