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July 2009

Lammas ritual at the Growing Center

July 31, 2009

I’ll be doing another Wheel of the Year ritual at the Growing Center, celebrating the first harvest with song, story and a shared meal. If you plan to come, try to bring food to share from your garden or a local farm. Here’s the series announcement: A series of family-friendly festivals celebrating the turning of [...]

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Hey – that’s an advertisement!

July 29, 2009

I was overjoyed to hear Rio shout this from the living room today. She’s had very little exposure to commercials. Mostly that’s just personal preference – I like NPR and loathe TV – but I also think kids as young as mine are generally not awesome at understanding advertising, so I try to steer clear [...]

Tagged as: parenting, rio

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Good news, bad news

July 29, 2009

Good news: WIC is expanding their offerings to low-income Massachusetts families to include vegetables, eggs, cheese, rice and beans (among other things). What did they cover before? I shudder to think. But they seem to be allowing people to use their food vouchers to buy food now, so that’s all good. Bad news: Crazy firefighter [...]

Tagged as: biking, food, news

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Still not Santa Claus

July 27, 2009

Rio is playing in the kitchen with a slightly older friend. Suddenly he says, “You know Santa Claus isn’t real.” I wince, and try to hide my alarm. I’m not ready for this. I’m afraid she’ll get hurt. That bubble of innocence, that fierce belief in all things magic, that protects her from the world, [...]

Tagged as: holiday, magic, rio

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The long pause in learning

July 26, 2009

A few months ago, Rio seemed to be right on the cusp of learning to read. She was practicing writing every day, for hours. She began copying whole sentences out of books, writing out words like “amazing” along with her standards – Rio, Mama, love. And then she stopped. I wasn’t surprised. She’s done this [...]

Tagged as: education, reading, rio

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Those pesky house fairies

July 25, 2009

*crash* I come into the room to find Rio sitting on the floor, crying and clutching her bum. It’s pretty clear that she just fell off a piano stool and hit her tailbone, but she’s too upset to talk about it yet, so I just hold her. Eventually, Serena toddles in to see what’s going [...]

Tagged as: fairies, rio, serena, witchcraft

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Happy 20th Friendiversary, Sarah

July 24, 2009
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Tonight my best friend and I celebrated 20 years of friendship with good food, amazing cake, tasty drinks and a crowd of friends. I met Sarah in the back of a moving van twenty years ago this week. “Who are you?” I said as I wandered into the back of the van. “Who are you?” [...]

Tagged as: life stuff, sarah

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Home again

July 23, 2009

Back from a long week of rest. A week in a little lakeside cottage where it was always naptime. I learned to bake Really Good Bread there. I watched my kids chase ducks, and be chased by them. I read Lady Chatterly’s Lover again, and enjoyed it a lot more than I did when I [...]

Tagged as: family, food, health, travel

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Gone fishing

July 16, 2009

I will be out of town and out of touch for a week, resting.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Asleep Moviegoer

July 16, 2009

In spite of my Lyme-induced exhaustion, I went to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie on Tuesday night. Yum. It was the film equivalent of eating an entire hot fudge sundae and not feeling sick afterward. Things I loved about it: Hogwarts! I love the magic of the school brought to life [...]

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