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Blog posts by: Angela Romeo

A co-op volunteer bids a fond farewell
By Angela Romeo Martha Mowry is a 2011 Community Leadership graduate and cooperative living ambassador. I am inspired by her passion and love for resident-ownership. By Martha Mowry I have lived in my manufactured-housing park for 18 years. We converted to resident-ownership and became Exeter-Hampton Cooperative 12 years ago. For most of that time, I worked full-time and cared for a terminally ill husband, so I was not able to be active in the community. I first became involved in the...
29 weeks 21 hours ago | more
Building community? Spread kindness
By Angela Romeo You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Lately, I’ve been hearing this phrase regularly from one particular manufactured-housing co-op. That sure is true. Building a sense of community is far from easy. It is downright long, hard work. However, it does get easier over time. One of the groups I work with has been a co-op for over a decade. Since the day they bought their park and converted from investor- to resident-ownership, they have created remarkable improvements...
37 weeks 23 hours ago | more
Co-op residents, namaste
By Angela Romeo Namaste is a regular part of my life. It is a Hindi salutation, meaning “I bow to you,” with which my yoga instructors end every class. Recently, one of my instructors did not end the session with namaste. It threw my whole experience off balance. My class felt incomplete without that one little word. There’s a word the ROC-NH™ team uses all the time, to the point where it carries nearly as much meaning in our work as namaste does in yoga: Consistency. In an unpredictable world...
1 year 8 weeks ago | 1 Comment(s) | more
Sharing the spotlight, all shine brighter
By Angela Romeo A few friends and I recently drove down to Cambridge for One Night Band. One Night Band is an amazing exercise in creativity and teamwork. Forty local musicians were randomly sorted into groups of five on Saturday morning to make eight new bands. Each band then had 10 hours to write three new songs and practice one familiar song before being thrown on stage to perform in front of an audience that night. The resulting concert is a benefit to raise funds for ZUMIX, a local youth...
1 year 14 weeks ago | more
Manufactured or mobile?
By Angela Romeo Since joining the ROC-NH™ staff a year ago I have heard the many sides of the vocabulary debate: “mobile home” vs. “trailer” vs. “manufactured home.” I choose to use the term “manufactured home” because I feel “trailer” and “mobile home” carry negative, second-class connotations. I want the words I use to reflect my feelings about manufactured housing – that it is a first-rate form of housing. The recent “Trailerhood” song and music video by country singer Toby Keith...
1 year 14 weeks ago | more