Shava Nerad

Imagination is the strop of Occam's Razor

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The Basics

Location: Somerville, MA
Hometown:

Dayton, Ohio
Gender:

female
Sexual Orientation:

bisexual
Relationship Status:

in a relationship
Children:

I have children
(Teenagers)

Profile updated: Jan 04, 2008
Last signed in: Jun 03, 2008
Member since: Dec 01, 2005

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Gretchen Lee Bourquin	Kevin (sitewizard.gather.com) V.	Dan H.
Trudy P.	Jennifer Hodge, Member Experience	Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
John M.	Diana Raabe	Doc,... Dr. of Curmudgeon; esq.

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Unofficial Gatherholics	Old Hippie's Corner	Global News & Views
Russophiles	Cooking,Anything & Everything To Do With Cooking*	Recipes, Cooking, and Food
Teach Me to Cook!	The Renewed Activist	thought provoking

Shava is excited to be listed in Google News.

About Me

People say I'm:

smart, analytical, diplomatic, articulate, witty, geeky
Describe Yourself:

A young 48, intense honey-brown eyes, greying curly brown hair that used to be red (dyed black at the moment) and skin to go with the red hair. Built like a steppes pony -- compact and powerful and chunky. A formerly single mom of a wonderful 15 year old nerdy son, engaged to a professional magician. A deep ecumenist mystic. A systems thinker. On the Internet for over 20 years; blogging since 2002.
On Gather, I'm Looking For ...:

connections. I would love new ideas, coffee, more friends, intellectual stimulation, pin money. Email me at shava -at- efn.org if you'd like to do coffee sometime, if you're local to Boston.

Interests

Favorite Music, Artists, Genres:

ethnotechno.com, Grateful Dead and hippie jam music, blues, jazz, world beat (raw), singing with my son (even though he can't hold a note) every night before bed
Favorite Books, Writers, Genres:

too many. Most recently, I have really enjoyed, and have re-read several times, Dewey's Education and Democracy. Currently reading Lewis's Lives of a Cell, and trying to get my son to fall in love with it. My reading is broad and eclectic. Current reading also includes Red Mars series, and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a stranger., The good ones. Hmmm... Most influential might include Mircea Eliade and Chogyam Trungpa on spirituality. Barbara Kafka is one of my fave cookbook authors. More later.
Favorite Movies, Actors, Genres:

Tampopo. The Matrix (before it got tired). Breakfast at Tiffany's. Year of Living Dangerously. Favorite film in the last few months: Good Night, and Good Luck
Favorite TV Shows, Actors:

I don't own a TV, although I used to work in entertainment marketing. But my son has me watching Buffy on DVD with him, episode by episode, season by season. I will survive. More recently, Firefly. Yum!
Interests and Activities:

Politics, civic engagement (big believer in social capital), science fiction, gaming, history, religion/spirituality, geekiness in various formats, writing, gaming (online, tabletop, strategy, ...), reading, music, cooking, sewing/needlecrafts, geeking around with the computer I built, people watching, striking up conversations on the bus, transforming society

Affiliations

Political Affiliation:

Liberal, currently an active Democrat
Religious Affiliation:

Unitarian/Buddhist -- Jewish by birth
Employers:

DEC, Varian, MIT, UNC/CH, UO, Oregon Public Networking, eMarket Group, and http://tor.eff.org
Colleges:

largely an autodidact. When they hired me at MIT, my manager said, "No degree and a publications list like this? You must be an incredible self starter!" If it's good enough for MIT, isn't it good enough for you?

Major:

Life. If you added it all up, there'd be something like a media degree, with a minor in computer science and a lot of Asian studies and education classes.
High Schools:

U-32 HS, E. Montpelier, VT
Other Affiliations:

MIT Science Fiction Society, Democratic Party, MIT Educational Studies Program (Instructor), Progressive Democrats of Somerville, Unitarian Church

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