Name: Ania
Ania’s name reflects her Polish and English ancestry. She currently lives north of Tucson in the other Valley of the Sun, Phoenix. Perhaps that makes her a meteor! Ania came to investigate cohousing in Tucson thinking there must be people in the Phoenix area interested in this concept. However, no cohousing group has formed in the Phoenix area. At this point in her life, she doesn't want to wait five to ten years to live in a community based on cooperation such as Stone Curves, so she shifted her thinking to, "Go where the community is building, become part of the process, and a job will follow." Ania is currently teaching adult basic education in the Phoenix Job Corps.
She’s acting on faith that Stone Curves Cohousing is the life style she wants to age with and invite her two adult daughters and their future families to enjoy when they visit. Ania says "I trust I'll have years of active service to Stone Curves, and when my sitting time on the porch increases, I'll have more time for sharing stories with children of all ages as well as neighbors to assist me when needed. I can't think of a better long-term care policy or ‘assisted living’ than the investment I'm making in Stone Curves Cohousing."

Name: Carlos
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos moved to the US in 1945. He loves where he lives and is very involved in the Limberlost neighborhood. Since 1978, he has owned a consulting business, Cultural Exchange Service, that encourages individuals with diverse perspectives to discover common ground for the benefit of all. In his spare time, Carlos also enjoys furniture building and restoration.
He believes Stone Curves is a summary of all the efforts he has devoted to community building during the years.

Name: Chris
Child: Devi
Chris is a 40 something academic who studies how organizations use computers. She likes rock and roll/Celtic/world dancing tunes, and she likes exploring and talking about curious things, board games, comedies, all things green, and seeing new places. "I have a daughter and love pets, World Cup soccer, poetry, sci fi, funky coffee or tea houses, unblended Scotch (as a treat), and spontaneous day trips to hidden treasures. I grew up a Navy brat around the Pacific, went to Berkeley, and other places, lived in Europe for a bit, taught at West Point and served as well. I like practical solutions with thoughtful cooperative people and find that here in this cohousing community."

Name: Dan & Gina
Dan and Gina, married since 1974, moved to Tucson from Pennsylvania in 1997. A year later, they embarked on a 15-month tour of America in a 32-foot Winnebago, visiting friends and family, volunteering at Everglades National Park, and spending four months in an intentional community in western MA. Since returning to Tucson in the fall of ’99, they’ve planted deeper roots here, and are intrigued and excited by the possibilities for community at Stone Curves. Dan and Gina are the proud parents of two grown daughters _ Charlotte, 26, a costume designer living in Los Angeles, and Lillie, 23, a UA grad student and future elementary school teacher living in Tucson.
Gina ( 54) is a retired Elementary School Counselor. She loves children, cuddles newborns at TMC, and teaches infant massage to parents at The Parent Connection. An avid walker and hiker, she looks forward to Stone Curves’ proximity to the Rillito River. She practices T’ai Chi and yoga, sings soprano in the University/Community Chorus, and helps in a kindergarten classroom and at Dr. Weil’s Integrative Medicine Program. Gina enjoys reading and art, and hopes a piece of marble she’s been chiseling for 30 years will find completion and a home somewhere at Stone Curves! Being in community with friendly neighbors and contributing in whatever way she can will be a joy for Gina.
Dan (50) is a husband, a dad, and a drummer. He had a 22-year career in broadcasting and business communications (as a corporate film and video producer). A full-time student at the U of A School of Music, he performs with a variety of ensembles (big band, jazz combo, African percussion, and New Orleans jazz) and may wind up with a degree in Percussion Performance one of these days. He also loves RV traveling, hiking, biking, cooking, gardening, film and humor. Dan’s particularly excited about the possibilities for sharing food, music, and life with his fellow co-housers at Stone Curves.

Name: Diane (bio & photo to come)

Name: Irma
Irma settled in Tucson more than 35 years ago, after living in many places both in the U.S. and abroad. She raised three children in Tucson and worked in research virology. She was led away from the research lab in her mid-thirties to become a human sexuality educator. She has worked with people of all ages and joyfully anticipates the sounds of children, dogs, cats, and hamsters at Stone Curves. She's also an avid organic vegetable gardener!

Name: Jack
He's a born and bred New Yorker who has always loved the written word and journalism. A journalist first, he then enlivened the arts in New York by lending a hand and working with Isaac Stern in the saving of Carnegie Hall, a premiere concert hall that had been doomed to a wrecking ball. He then went on to help Lincoln Center stand on its feet to be the center of the arts that it was meant to be. He was always involved in a little of the politics of the city, working with a few of the mayors and a congressman or two.

Name: Kathryn (bio & photo to come)

Name: Lou & Lynette (bio & photo to come)
Child: Lisa

Name: Lynda (bio & photo to come)

Name: Marc & Yoshiko
Children: Joy & Joe
I was born on planet earth forty seven years ago. My first home was in the green valleys of Wales where the sounds of laughter, crying and singing were never too far away. It also rained a lot, so I left home seeking fame and fortune and headed to the bright lights of London town. Unfortunately, I was none too bright and ended up in the clutches of an evil religious tyrant who was trying to save the world from other evil religious tyrants. In a life and death struggle, I escaped with my trusty good humor and sanity intact. Soon after, a space alien told me that the next passage in my life must include earning enough money to convince my family that I was successful. That was the American dream. And it was for a while. We ran a delightful little market in the Peoples Republic of Arlington, Va. and everyone thought I was very charming, funny and sexy. Of course, they were right, but the strains of needing to make other people happy made me question the depth of my own happiness. I looked into my soul again, reread my favorite poem, Leap before you Look (WH Auden) and decided to leap. Therefore, the market and our home are both now for sale and the next leg on my journey is to Tucson and Stone Curves.

Yoshiko, my wife, has lived in the United States longer than her native country of Japan. I married her twenty one years ago, and, against all odds, we still like each other. We are the parents of two delightful children who have a healthy disrespect for each other, and us. We fell in love with the natural beauty of Arizona on a visit last year. Yoshiko loves reading, walking, crocheting and singing and she looks forward to having lots of fun at Stone Curves. Although she won’t admit it, Yoshiko has excellent organizational skills and likes working behind the scenes.

Joy, born in London, is twelve years young and enjoys playing the piano and violin. Her teachers tell us that she is quite gifted and needs to practice regularly. Sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn’t. She feels that the education system wasn’t designed with her in mind and she puts it all down to stupid men who have got nothing better to do than start wars and make life unpleasant for children by creating silly rules. Joy is a quiet, thoughtful soul - when not pulling her brother’s hair out - who loves reading and plotting the destruction of the patriarchal society.

Joe is the author of “A hundred and one excuses to get out of doing stuff you don’t want to do”. He is nine years old and is the socialite of the household. We’ve considered getting a separate phone line for him as most of the incoming calls are from his friends. His favorite band is Good Charlotte and he enjoys the sort of video games that his parents disapprove of. At this stage of his life Joe wants it to be known that he is very much against girls, loves fooling around on the computer and breaking things.

Name: Mike
Mike is currently working overseas, and seems to always be on the move. He grew up in Southern California, attended USC and then traveled the world while in the Navy. He found his 3-year tour flying for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica to be the most fun and rewarding....and he hopes to go back one day. He then worked in the airline industry prior to moving to Arizona. Mike became interested in co-housing while visiting friends at Harmony Village in Golden, CO...and was drawn to StoneCurves upon settling in Tucson. He admires the cooperative effort to both look out for one another as well as help the environment through responsible construction and sharing resources. Mike is looking forward to returning to Arizona and moving into Stone Curves with his new friends and neighbors.

Name: Norm & Judy
Chicago natives Norm and Judy met in Washington, D.C. in 1961 while she was an aide to Congressman Mo Udall and he was training naval officers to identify missile bases. Norm spent most of his working career with General Electric developing new turbine materials for jet engines and gas turbine power generators. Judy was able to be an at home Mom and to volunteer with the Institute of Cultural Affairs, a global NGO that helps groups and communities discover and activate their preferred futures. Norm loves athletics and keeps trying to improve his golf game. Judy may take it up if it doesn't get too serious. They enjoy Arizona Wildcat basketball, hiking, gardening, learning through travel, entertaining, finding great houses, and much much more. They have created homes in Connecticut; New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; and recently a winter nest in Tucson  (where Judy's family moved in 1948).Stone Curves is helping Norm and Judy accomplish their dream of having a gracious, energy efficient home in the sun with great neighbors, while staying well connected to their children, grandchildren (6), and friends in Cincinnati. "Stone Curves makes such good sense for us and we feel we are investing in sustainable, healthy living options for the planet."

Name: Paul
Growing up on a ranch in the Oklahoma Panhandle provided valuable perspectives useful throughout Paul's life. A graduate of Panhandle A & M College with degrees in Speech and Music Education (no need to repeat his ranch education), Paul graduated with 207 undergraduate hours because he could not narrow down what he wanted to do in life, all contributing to many interesting experiences and opportunities. Some of those have been a run at a theater career, running (or being run by) an Albuquerque restaurant, establishing an abstract/title company back home in Oklahoma; challenging oil companies at the Oklahoma Legislature on behalf of mineral owners; running for Congress in 1996 and 1998, becoming active in State politics, serving on the National Sierra Club Agriculture Committee and being active in other organizations dedicated to a sustainable future for food production. He lived in Tucson briefly in the late 1970s, performing with the Tucson Musical Theater and hopes to renew that connection. Stone Curves presents an opportunity to actually live in an environmentally responsible community with people who share his beliefs about a sustainable lifestyle.

Name: Richard & Maaike
Children: Alexia, Mini Maaike and Skye Dancer
Skye Dancer just celebrated her 1st birthday.
Mini Maaike is five years old and a little wilderness girl.
Alexia is 10 years old and very beautiful and tall. She has always been able to see the fairies and is very aware of the spiritual world. She is kind, smart and very generous as well as an excellent gymnast who participates in meets and hopes to go to the Olympics someday. She loves horses and rides whenever she gets a chance, which we all hope will be more often once we get to Arizona.
Richard is a very spiritual, and very funny man. He loves his children and his wife and playing tennis, and watching movies. He has secret aspirations to be an artist, and he loves to paint in watercolors and dabble in clay. He is completing his coursework in Neurotherapy and hopes to open a healing practice, in partnership with his wife, once they get to Tucson. He lived in Tucson when he was younger and has always dreamed of coming back here to live.
Maaike is a mother, homeschooler, healer, expressive artist, and dreamer. She spends her days cooking, cleaning, and reading tarot cards for friends. She loves to facilitate circles for the purpose of deep and lasting transformation, employing the use of art, ritual and community. She has studied with Malidoma Some' as well as Jane Goldberg and is a Reiki Master Teacher. She is looking forward to year round sunshine, living in a community of good hearted folks, sharing a practice with her husband, and the annual gem show in Tucson.

Name: Robin & Brad
Children: Valerie, Melissa, & Magdalena
Robin...Full of energy and excitement about living in community.She has been homeschooling their 3 girls for the past 10 years and feels Stone Curves has so many things to enhance their lives.She strongly feels that if families lived more in villages like Stone Curves, women would experience less feelings of being isolated and lonely. Personally Robin likes Tucson for its thrift stores,being able to go for a walk outdoors everyday,and having so many stores to shop for organic foods so close by.She loves to sew and is hoping she will do a marathon before she is 40!!!
Brad...A great example of its never too late.He at 49 just got his real estate license and is looking forward to starting a hobby of selling real estate and at the end of a busy day enjoying the pool at Stone Curves. At first he felt cohousing was a great thing to do for the kids but now is feeling the family as a whole will benefit greatly.
Valerie...Age 10 Some day we will see her in either Hollywood or doing plays on Broadway.As we call her the drama queen! Loves Ballet and acting but also can't get enough of science and learning about our solar system.She hopes someday she will discover her own planet!!!
Melissa ...Age 5 Busy busy busy!!! A child full of life.Loves gymnastics,riding her bike,climbing mountains and digging in the dirt.She will someday probably be running marathons with her mom.
Maggie...age 1 she is so lucky to be starting her life in a village.She attends all the meetings at Stone Curves with her mom,and already has so many adults looking out for her.Loneliness will never be a part of her vocabulary!!! She is truly learning the meaning of the word family.

Name: Spencer & Kerstin
Spencer lives on acreage in a rural area outside of Tucson and has for the last 30 years. He sees a time coming when living in an intentional community in the city will make better ecological, psychological, and practical sense for him. He is a former educator and has been in the recycling fashion business for the last 28 years. He plays mandolin, plays with his grandchildren, and enjoys belly-laughing whenever possible. Kerstin was born in Sweden, but came to Tucson in 1960 to go to school for a year at the University of Arizona. She and Spencer married in Sweden in 1962 and returned to Tucson for good in 1968. They have two adult daughters and three granddaughters here. Kerstin is the founder and president of Buffalo Exchange, a new and used clothing chain. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and collects string holders. The concept of co-housing and Stone Curves reminds her of Sweden.

Name: Susan & Kevin
Susan: I lived in a commune for 12 years from 1970 to the early 80's. Since then I have often wondered if there was a way of living that might capture something of the community of that time. When I happened upon Stone Curves I felt that I might have found the middle ground I have been seeking since then -- that place where individual and community can connect without either being diminished. I recently finished my schooling with a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate School and have a small private practice. My passions are writing and the creative experience in general. Currently my horse, Chiron, fulfills that need. Back in the early 90's I wrote a novel and and a large body of poetry. I hope to return to my writing in my new office in my new home at Stone Curves. And I also look forward to having my three sons and granddaughter come to visit so they can get to know the Stone Curvers!

Kevin comes to Tucson from the northern plains of South Dakota. He is Dakota-Sioux, which means Friend or Ally, and hopes to find many friends and allies in the Stone Curves community. As a Native American, Kevin brings the rich heritage of a not too distant tribal culture and outlook which emphasizes the role of relationship. In response to plans to landscape using permaculture techniques and native plants, Kevin described his vision of Stone Curves as a place where a right relationship with the earth might provide an inner city island of healing for the soil, a place where the earth might be renewed for future generations. Kevin currently teaches 7th grade Language Arts at Baboquivari Middle School out on the Tohono O'odham Reservation. An avid musician, he plays trumpet, piano and recorder and has been in numerous local bands in Tucson. He looks forward to those evenings when jam sessions spontaneously erupt in the common house.

Name: Terry & Rebecca
Child: Delaney
Terry was born in Michigan -- and is very glad to live far away from the cold. Rebecca was born in California -- she's glad to be away from the traffic. Delaney was born here in Tucson -- and she's just glad to be born. "Rebecca and I met 24 years ago while we were both in the Army. I went on to finish 20 years in the service and am currently a school bus driver for the Amphitheater School District. My work is walking distance from Stone Curves. My current hobbies are reading (history, travel/adventure narratives, sailing topics), exercising and playing guitar. Rebecca went on to college, then founded and sold some businesses in Tucson. She's currently involved in community service (Casa Maria Soup Kitchen, Race for the Cure, and KXCI community radio), playing soccer for the 'Hot Flashes' ( which requires a lot of ice and heat packs), practicing yoga, and raising our wonderful daughter.
Delaney is the best daughter a man could have. She plays the piano, loves reading Archie Comic books among others, watching classic movies and musicals and spending time with friends. She's smart as a whip and we fully expect her to be the first President of that world government everyone is dreading. We decided on Stone Curves for a number of reasons -- to establish a sense of community, to live lighter on the earth. And we're pleased with the commonality of purpose and the stimulating minds involved in this project!"

Name: Vicky
Children: Charles & Veronica
Vicky and her children love to camp, and often journey out to explore Arizona and its neighboring states. When not "roughing" it, Vicky is a tennis fanatic and enjoys introducing others to the numerous leagues close by. If time allowed, she would dabble more in painting, music and hiking. When not playing, her work of running a local juvenile correctional facility and hopes of starting a private practice as a therapist keep her very busy.
Although originally from Scotland, Vicky believes Tucson is her "adopted" home, and eagerly anticipates being part of the lively community of Stone Curves.

How you can find out more about Stone Curves

Visit our Site Plan, Floor Plans & Elevations

An area map showing Stone Curves in its Tucson neighborhood

Stone Curves is inspired in part by CoHousing. Here are answers to the two most frequently asked questions about CoHousing

Meet a few of your future neighbors at Stone Curves

Find out more about our lead developer, Jim Leach, and his company Wonderland Hill Development Corporation

Find out more about Cohousing from the Cohousing Network

Stone Curves is located on the SW corner of Stone & Limberlost (where Stone curves).

Call 520-293-5290 or 520-877-3991 for more information or email gonefromgenes@aol.com
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