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From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Home. Again.

August 31, 2009

I’m home from a week in the woods with the Witches. Did you miss me? My fey minions posted a few things for me while I was gone. I missed you. There’s another version of me out there who lives full time in an intentional community and does nothing but cook, garden, knit, work magic [...]

Tagged as: gratitude project, house project

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I’m on Babble

August 27, 2009

Babble published an article in their Back to School Issue this week about Rio’s upcoming kindergarten experiment: it’s called Kindergarten Cop-Out, and it’s up now!

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Sigg bottles lined with BPA

August 26, 2009

A few years ago the news hit that polycarbonate bottles were made with BPA, a carcinogenic chemical also popular in baby bottles and toys. Like a lot of other parents, I threw out all the plastics in our house that I knew contained BPA. I might have taken it a step further than most because [...]

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Fall leaves?

August 24, 2009

Every week, I do a nature walk with my preschool kids. We stroll around the block in as much silence as a group of 2-5 years olds can muster while awake, and pay attention with our eyes and our ears and our noses and our skin to what’s happening in nature. The highlight of the [...]

Tagged as: homeschooling, nature

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Thanks, trash dudes!

August 20, 2009

In the middle of the worst heat wave of the year, our neighborhood trash truck came by and hauled ALL THIS TRASH away from our curb while five little kids looked on and cheered, “We love you, trash dudes!” We also love the friends who came over the night before and hauled all that mess [...]

Tagged as: house project

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Solving a spitting problem

August 19, 2009

The other day, Rio and I were walking home at the end of a long, tiring afternoon of play play play. I was pushing her sister in a stroller, and she kept riding her scooter into the wheels. Eventually, I told her I’d take the scooter away if she drove into me again. About a [...]

Tagged as: discipline, funny, parenting, rio

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Today’s gratitude: gymnastics

August 18, 2009

Today, theGymnastics Academy of Boston totally made my day. It had a tough act to follow. The day started out beautifully, with a blissful preschool morning featuring a pleasant walk, a romp in the sprinklers at a local park, and a nice quiet lunch and story time. The kids left, and I read my e-mail [...]

Tagged as: body, gymnastics, rio

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The rain of words

August 18, 2009

Serena’s rain of words has begun. That’s the Waldorf term for the developmental stage that happens for most kids around two years old when they suddenly begin speaking a lot. Her vocabulary has probably increased by at least two orders of magnitude in the past two weeks. She went from having a half a dozen [...]

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Missing pieces

August 15, 2009

Yesterday I said good-bye to my stepson and put him on a plane back to Colorado, where he’ll spend most of the school year livin’ with his mum and being a high school sophomore. I miss him. Every hour or so I reach for him with my mind: to count him into a meal, offer [...]

Tagged as: ian

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Boycott the Marriott!

August 14, 2009

Apparently this is the week to boycott big businesses. First there was the Whole Foods boycott for health care reform. And now this lovely story about the Marriott blaming a mom for being raped in front of her little kids in one of their parking garages. The Marriott is arguing in court that this woman [...]

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Tagged as: feminism, news, politics, rants, social justice

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