by John Pustell The day was cold but the skies clear. Dixie and I set off at 6:30 am to drive to the Middlesex Fells for a brisk three-mile hike on part […]
To Middlesex Fells
Social Teams for Fun and Building Community
Social Teams for Fun and Building Community By Kathy Keleher At Bay State Commons, we have always said that we are constructing our community before we ever construct our building. One of […]
Boarded Up Downtown
By Christine Clements During the first week after the killing of George Floyd, our group started discussing what kind of public statement to put on our website. One member challenged us […]
Getting involved, Getting informed
By Paul Sherman These are surely trying times we live in, as patterns of police brutality and systemic racism are being exposed and called out at perhaps the widest levels yet. In […]
The Great Divide?
By Ellis Cohen These are difficult times for our country. We have an opportunity to really face underlying problems of inequity, but to ultimately succeed, we have to address the polarization in […]
What are BSC members doing during the COVID crisis?
by Kathy Keleher As with everyone, collective uncertainty among Bay State Commons’ members continues about the duration of our current isolation and the specific qualities of a post-COVID society. Several of our […]
Never a better time for a caring community
by Rich Hannigan As so many of us hunker down at home—some of us fortunate enough to work from home, others not so much—I’m finding it important to stay in the present. […]
Cohousing post-COVID
We hope that you and your loved ones (human and otherwise) are staying safe and well during this health crisis that has created an unsettling new normal for all of us. In […]
Social closeness while physically distancing
by Christine Clements Sure, our best hope for slowing the spread of the coronavirus is to change how we socialize in physical space. But we need our human connections now more than […]
BSC at Triple Threat Trivia
For the third year in a row, Bay State Commons sent a team to Triple Threat Trivia, an annual late-January fundraiser for the Malden Public Library. We chose a theme of Building […]