Today we get to welcome another new blogger to the Kent Patch family: David Flexer.

Since moving back to Kent from Israel, Flexer and his wife, artist Hilary Flexer, have been slowly building up a home-based business, Soliloquy, “with generous support from friends and family so we are both always close to the kids and incorporate them into our work.”

Flexer’s first blog post is about the couple’s desire to transition the Kent Artists’ Union from dream to reality. He was in the process of involving Kent artist Robert Wood in the movement when Wood died last Sunday.

Flexer said his blog “will hopefully be a little bit of everything: artists’ union related things, urban planning brainstorming (I love to envision how spaces can be creatively used), gardening and permaculture (we are experimenting with our little plot in Kent planting fruiting bushes and trees and composting), and family life with small children in Kent.”

Flexer brings the active blogging tally on Kent Patch up to 10. That's right, 10 of your fellow readers and neighbors are writing about their community and sharing their thoughts. And there are even more Kent folks in the process or pipeline who have yet to write their first blog. 

Nationally, more than 10,000 small-town America residents are blogging for Patch. You can do the same by clicking here to apply and become a blogger.

So join me in welcoming another Kent resident to the Kent Patch blog family, and give Flexer the best welcome of all — by reading his first blog!