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...dorms, at least, Davis says he suspects there is plenty of roaming going on when students want to relocate their computers within their suite. If suite-mates decide to swap rooms mid-way through the year, for example, they no longer need to wait a day or two to reconnect to the network...
...like-minded people to befriend. When Frances Wong Chan, 78, a divorced retiree, moved from Washington to San Francisco 13 years ago to help care for her daughter's children, she didn't know a soul there outside her family. With no old friends in the city to reconnect with, she took the next best route. She joined the Unitarian Church, a book club, a co-counseling group, an investor's club, a senior center, even a Japanese singles club--though she herself is ethnic Chinese. "I guess I'm a groupie," she says with a laugh. "I look...
With older children, the task becomes trying to maintain some semblance of normal mother-child relations. In Plymouth, Mich., the Children's Visitation Program runs parenting-skills classes at the women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council...
...math. Six adults and seven children would be sharing a four-bedroom house. We weren't going on vacation. We were forming a commune. Survivors of such experiments had warned us about feuding spouses, clashing parenting styles and conflicting itineraries. But they had also rhapsodized about the chance to reconnect with old friends or get to know new ones, the fun of cooking for a crowd, the guarantee of playmates for the children and extra hands to care for them...
What these Williamsburg wannabes have in common is that they are motivated equally by a desire to have their kids reconnect to their history and a desire to attract tourists. The result can be a bit surreal and even disconcerting. The quaint shopping areas sell mainly souvenirs. The history is generally sanitized. But it's important not to be cynical. In a pioneering, road-loving America, one can sense a sincere yearning to re-establish roots and restore community identity...