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About Cohousing
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Our Community
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Our History
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Kids
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Other Information
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Our
People
As
with any Northern Virginia suburb, Blueberry Hill contains an eclectic group
of residents, of all ages and varying ethnicities.
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 Don grew up in
the DC area, spending time in New York City, and living for several years
in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There he raised his severely physically-impaired
foster son and met his wife-to-be, Dee. Don is transitioning from
government and computers to his own practice in bodywork with emphasis on
aquatic forms.
Dee is an avid
reader, sings and plays the guitar, and teaches first, second, and third
graders at Northern Virginia Friends School. She sings in the chorale at
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax and loves to hang out with
her husband Don and Mosby the cat.
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Cookie is a devoted
mother and stepmother of five, spoiled wife, devout Southerner, agnostic
Jew, and keeper of other contradictions. Enjoys cooking, reading,
lounging around with all three of her pets (husband and two dogs).
Drives constantly between home, work, two elementary schools, one middle
school and two high schools. Always up for a party!
Paul is...
exceptional
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Victor was born in
Ukraine, speaks 5 languages. once worked as advisor to Elmo Zumwalt,
Chief of Naval Operations, and still consults on national security
policy. He believes cohousing saves humanity from the stresses of the
post-industrial society.
Jila is... a
real-life princess
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Anna works at Inova Fairfax
Hospital as an ER social worker, but mostly she's a full time student at Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health. Sometime in 2011 she hopes to have her PhD in Health Policy.
Commuting to Baltimore really cuts into playtime, to which she is devoted. Anna grew
up on Potomac Vegetable Farms and lives with Jim. Their three sons are off to college
or working nearby. Hobbies include long distance running, dancing, and cooking for a
crowd.
Jim teaches 8th
grade physical science at Longfellow Middle School, and is husband to
Anna/father of their three sons. He focuses on home improvements and training in the
summer. Jim likes setting up his lab experiments on the kitchen counter and avoiding
his large pile of grading by going for a run or helping Anna with meal prep. Hobbies
include running and beating Kenyon at any distance.
Mel is Jim Bradford's mother
and moved here from Albuquerque after a long career as a psychotherapist. Mel continues
to see a few clients/week, but mostly fills her time traveling to conferences, serving
on committees throughout the community, spending time with her various local family,
and writing poetry.
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Noel, husband of Rhonda
and father of Adam, was born in Canada to an English mother and a
Jamaican father. He grew up in New York City and despite living in the
District of Columbia for 12 years still considers himself a New Yorker.
His education is in mechanical and biomedical engineering. His career has
primarily been in working with committees of experts to review existing
or proposed scientific projects or programs for government agencies
including NASA and the US Army.
Rhonda, wife of Noel
and mother of Adam, fares as the BBH HOA Treasurer. She has held the job since the
inception of the Homeowner’s association and as a secondary job she acts as Halloween
and Easter Egg Hunt Event organizer.
Adam is the family's resident
artist. His favorite medium is clay. His signature character is Dibble. Adam loves
his cat Fiona and his current favorite food is soybeans.
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Betsy was raised on the Atlantic seaboard and became friends with Hana in
3rd grade and Kenyon at Cornell. She now works as a lawyer for the Justice
Department, but loves to listen to the stories cooked up by her three
children, read, sing with Venus d
Minor, watch movies, and “run for wine” (not necessarily in that
order). She especially enjoys having a Common House, where she
frequently cooks community meals and throws great parties.
Kenyon attributes his interest in
cohousing to his Scandinavian, Lake Wobegone-minded parents. Having spent his youth
traipsing across the globe to India (Woodstock School) and Indonesia with his parents
and four siblings, he eventually received degrees in music education (U of Utah) and
hotel administration (Cornell). He and Betsy still enjoy raising their three kids in
the "village" of Blueberry Hill, where surrogate parents and siblings abound. He loves
to teach but has devoted his career to the IT management (at MICROS, the American Red
Cross, and Sapient) and choral music. When not working or running, Kenyon also directs
with the WAMA-winning Tone Rangers. And while
the will remains, he tries to win his advanced aged group at local 5- to 10-mile races,
as well as keeping Jim B humble.
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Dave Married to
Bernice. Loves people, three wonderful daughters: Two grown and gone,
living much too far away; one on the threshold of independence, and three
grandchildren living too far away. Federal employee for 34 years.
Hobbies: Yard & site work, chats with people about everything EXCEPT
ball games, reading about technical, theoretical, and hypothetical,
fictional and conceptual things, walking, climbing, crawling, caving,
cooking big weekend breakfasts (omnivore or vegetarian, not vegan),
fixing things, helping folks with a wide variety of "stuff",
going berserk on wasp nests in the middle of the night (organic and
physically), baking, helping Bernice with her many projects around the
house and BBH site, and real coffee. He doesn’t like pulling up poison ivy, but he can and will when
necessary. Whenever possible he tries to catch household mice alive, and
lets them go beyond walking distance from here so they don’t come back.
Bernice has lived in
Northern Virginia for most of her life. She is married to Dave and
sharing the same progeny. She finds it hard to believe she’s been ACTUALLY LIVING in cohousing for almost a decade. The euphoria is
no longer constant, but still bubbles to the surface occasionally. Now
that her children are mostly independent, she is enjoying re-discovering
her own independence. She finally has some time to indulge in projects,
though not as much as she’d like due to the pesky
requirement of needing to earn a living. She has been working in the
high-tech world of computers for over 30 years, and is currently in an
enviable stage of being able to work entirely from home. She is working
toward, planning for, and learning about what she wants to do if and when
she can afford to cut the Big Blue strings that connect her to full time
employment in the high-tech world. To that end, she has acquired her
Permaculture Design certification and has begun re-landscaping her world
with food. She is retraining her eyes and brain to see patterns and flow
in nature while striving to make her permaculture designs and life more
sustainable.
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Maria 
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Bob and Janet
are married with two young daughters. Bob is a systems engineer
currently consulting at HUD in DC and enjoys gardening, tai chi and
tennis. After twenty years in California, Bob is delighted to
return to the DC area for cohousing and to be closer to family on the
East Coast.
Janet is an
interpretive ranger for the National Parks including Point Loma, Alcatraz
and Marin Headlands. As a stay-at-home Mom she plans to be a DC
Area park ranger when both girls are in grade school. She enjoys
pottery, yoga, qi gong, helping at the farmstand, and visiting family in
MD and WV.
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Judy is a
40-something high school teacher, wife of Jim, and mother of Nicholas and
Emma. She enjoys volleyball and other forms of exercise (except
running!). She hopes to have enough time someday to revisit her
long-dormant hobbies of saxophone, flute and guitar playing.
Jim is: a computer software engineer; father of Nick and Emma;
husband of Judy; lover of small meetings; avid biker and runner;
over-the-hill tennis player; enjoyed the Matrix very much.
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Ilene is ... kind
Trevor is ...
inquisitive
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Hana has spent the
better part of her 40-something years working at Potomac Vegetable Farms.
She is a farmer and mom during the growing/harvesting season and a
full-time mom to her three kids during the off-season. She is married to
Jon. Hobbies include volunteering at the kids' schools and at the
synagogue, teaching Hebrew to fifth graders, preparing for the annual
Homegrown Triathlon.
Jon is married to
Hana and father of their three kids. He also works at Potomac Vegetable
Farms (mornings, evenings, and weekends) in a variety of capacities
including, but not limited to, carpentry projects, plumbing, and
mechanical tasks. Hobbies include participating at the farm, listening to
books on tape, doing maintenance and construction projects for BBH and
his own house.
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Barbara
was raised in New York but has lived in the DC region for 12 years. She
was originally a research immunologist, but now has a yoga therapy
practice. Barbara is single and has no children and is "very
committed to actualizing community in society." So it's a good thing
she's here with us!
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John is
outrageous: it's a choice of attitude sort-of-thing. He enjoys the
moment, organic food, the change of seasons, hugs, hanging out with his
sweetheart, colonial history, family (including their first grandchild!),
and the St. Louis Cardinals. He is fascinated by and concerned with
the environmental/social bottleneck we appear to be living in and enjoy
reading about the complex issues we face. He works for the
Environmental Protection Agency as a federal law enforcement
investigator.
Rebecca is
enthusiastic about the potential of human beings to learn from one
another and from the non-human world. She finds meaning and
pleasure in being with her family and friends, and playing with her
sweetheart. She is retired as a
clinical psychologist so can now devote her time to gardening, hiking and
other forms of physical activity, attending musical and theatrical performances,
enjoying great meals (especially those feasts prepared by neighbors in
the BBH Common House), reading well-written books, and creating counted
cross-stitch art.
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Karen is ... happy
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Jack was born
circa 1959 in Coronado, California and grew up a military brat in San
Diego with a stint in Japan. Went to high school at 'Fast Times at
Ridgemont High' - really. Attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with at
least two celebrities - both in the architecture department - Weird Al
Yankovic and Chuck Durrett. Full time - and more - 12 person
architectural practice in McLean keeps me busy but I don't work weekends!
(Would rather be playing volleyball, frisbee and word games.) Consensus
rocks!
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