John Baldridge

About Me

In no particular order...

• I like rabbits. They make wonderful house pets (though I have problems with the whole "pet concept"). The rabbit who lives in my house right now likes to sit on my (and my partner's) lap and give face kisses. She's awfully sweet.

• I hold a BA in Creative Writing (minor in Physics), an MA in TESOL/Linguistics, and a PhD in Geography. No wonder I ended up teaching at Evergreen!

• I am a PADI certified scuba instructor and have a 22-foot sailboat sitting in my driveway. I love the water...and the beings who inhabit it.

• I embrace radical uncertainty but do not let that prevent me from taking action. As such, I am always in the state of re-evaluating the actions I have taken and learning from the outcomes.

Interests

Hmmm... I don't know that I can think of anything I'm not interested in.

At the top of my "list" right now might be: figuring out how best to participate in my new community of Olympia (I came here about 2 years ago); the question of how worker cooperatives could become a stronger element in US society; learning what civic intelligence could mean and how it could help us create more functional relationships; the states of the US and world economies and what it means to participate in them; how to keep malware off my computer and how to repair things when I can't; how maps can either clarify or obscure material realities (or both), and what best practices can help with this....

I have a lot on my mind....