Becketwood Cooperative
An Active, Independent 55+ Community of Owners in Minneapolis
 

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN?

By Deborah Padgett   Previously published in THE COMMUNITY REPORTER and in Deborah Padgett’s compiled essays, LIVING, LOVING, LAUGHING, 2016   “You Can’t Go Home Again?” You can if you are Emily in OUR TOWN… I grew up a poor Baptist preacher’s kid living my teen years on a hill by a creek in the […] Read more

SPEAKING UP

By Jan Ekern   It’s always easier to keep your mouth shut and look the other way. But sometimes you just can’t hold back. I was on a city bus one morning in San Francisco several years ago. The bus was about half full. At one stop, a man in a wheelchair waited to embark. […] Read more

A STIFF UPPER-LIPPED ENGLISHMAN REVISITS THE DEIC TOWN HALL

By Rowland Joiner   Recently arrived Members at Becketwood cannot be aware of the subtle yet extensive changes that have taken place here these past three years. They might assume that we have always had displays like the September one depicting Rosh Hashanah, or that we have always supported Native American Powwows and have encouraged […] Read more

FOUND AND LOST

  By Carol Mockovak – Becketwood Member   My husband and I were raising six kids in Evanston, Illinois. Four boys and two girls filled up the space in our two-story duplex. The kids had lots of friends on our block, so they were never bored. When it was time for dinner, I went out to the […] Read more

HONOR THE PAST AND EMBRACE THE FUTURE

By Ann Lovrien – Member We move to Becketwood with our individual values shaped by our life experiences and a dose of generational values shaped by our shared national experience. If you are open to this construct, think about the generational values that have influenced Becketwood’s first 37 years. We were founded and have been […] Read more

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