Chara Allen Chara Allen is an avatar in SecondLife.com.  Second Life is a rapidly growing virtual world.   In the Second LIfe world, Chara explores exotic lands and talks to people from all over the world.  She owns some land in Vigdorova, where she lives in a treehouse with her garden next door.  She has entered and won a prize in a contest for haiku writing, a great pleasure since writing poety had become a "shining artifact of the past." In contrast to Chara, I am "semi-retired" which means I am much busier than before.  I make and tend websites, work in a law office three afternoons a week, care for my 2-year old grandson two days a week, and have several volunteer jobs. Chara and I are both Unitarian Universalists.   Chara and I both like poetry, literature, and learning. Chara Allen © 2007