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When I was in the common house a short while ago, two 6-year-old girls were playing in the dining room (A and B). A asked me to give her a cup so she could get some water. I noticed that the counter beside the sink was filled with used cups,

It’s 11 pm, and my 22 year old daughter and I are in my WindSong living room, packing some of her books for her move to an apartment in Vancouver. We have lots of boxes, but we’ve just run out of packing tape. “Do you think Shoppers has packing tape?”

It’s a funny thing to encounter the different reactions people emit when I try and explain what living in cohousing is like. At times it feels like summer camp, with people out and about, going about their co-housy business. At other times, it feels like a cozy village – each

One week into our cohousing adventure, and so far it feels like we have made the right decision for our family. Jon was out for meetings Wednesday afternoon and evening. Usually his evenings out invoke anxiety and stress in me as I picture having to do the ‘grumpy hours’ with

The shared economy. It’s a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what does it really mean in your daily life? At WindSong, we lend and share many things. When I went to a friend’s wedding, I borrowed nice shoes from one neighbor and a scarf and jewellery

I moved to WindSong with my husband and daughter in the summer of 1996. At that time our daughter was just two and a half, shy and clingy. The little girl in the unit next door was exactly the same age, and they became friends. Over the next year, a