Karen Christensen
About A Smaller Circle
Karen Christensen, CEO Berkshire Publishing Group
karen [at] berkshirepublishing [dot] com
INTERPERSONAL DIVIDE is a thoughtful book about community and the online world, and I’ve just discovered that the author, Michael Bugeja, has put sample syllabi on his website. And beautifully organized – I am impressed! Would love to hear from anyone who’s used these materials.
Posted: August 7th, 2010 under Community online, Resources, The search for community.
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I came to Great Barrington because I wanted my two children “to be from somewhere.” There are many times I have told myself what a mistake that was, that I chose the wrong place, that I should have stayed in London, or moved on when I realized how alien I felt here, knowing that that [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2010 under On Main Street, The search for community, Uncategorized.
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I’m not sure quite how I came across this. Was it a link from another China blog, or was I searching for uses of the phrase “this world of ours,” the title of our new series at Berkshire Publishing? In any case, it’s another example of the kind of questioning that inspires A Smaller Circle. [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 under China 中华 (lianxi, guanxi), The search for community, Uncategorized.
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Thanks to @ethan (Ethan Zuckerman) for link to this editorial in the Stabroek News, a paper in Guyana (a nation on the northern coast of South America): “Elsewhere Communities.” An impressively literary editorial, but I’m not sure there’s an argument that holds – or even an argument being made. Kenner was talking about imagination, and [...]
Posted: July 17th, 2010 under Community online, The search for community.
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At the office we’ve been editing some TV interviews I did 20 years ago, when I was a young mum in London, and new author of one of the first books about green living. My daughter Rachel, who is graduating from college, was then a chubbynewborn who modeled cloth nappies for my interviews and photo [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2009 under The search for community, Uncategorized.
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I stumble into most of the good things in my life. This happens in spite of my being a compulsive list-maker since I was 12, and one of those people who can’t help making life goal lists, however grandiose or futile. The latest happy stumble is into early morning yoga. It’s a kind of club [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2006 under The search for community.
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How can I be homesick for a country I wasn’t born in, a culture that isn’t mine? Every morning in Massachusetts, I make a pot of tea. Black and white china decorated with the names of English foods (“FRESH MILK & JERSEY CREAM” says my milk jug), tea cosy covered in a flowery print, tray [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2006 under Camberwell (London, UK), The search for community.
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