Recent content by Higby

From January to October this year I lived in a quasi-monastic commune in St. Augustine Florida. The commune in question is difficult to properly categorize - it could be called a religious community or a drug rehab facility, though not every person living there is an addict. The other...

I'm concerned about a group that has been sending Americans with temporary visas to live for one or more years in communes overseas. This group, which oversees a network of quasi-monastic communal living facilities, sends about 10 Americans every year to places like Italy, France, Austria, and...