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A Time of Few Words

June 17, 2010

I’ve been sick for two weeks, with a chest infection that made it impossible for me to talk for most of a week, and merely uncomfortable for a week after that. I am finally – today – done with the medicine for my bronchitis. I have bruised ribs from coughing so much. I’m very tired. [...]

Tagged as: rio, serena, travel, vacation

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This Little Piggy…

June 13, 2010

The girls are playing “this little piggy”. Serena loves this game, like all two-year-olds, and Rio is indulging her in it. A treat. We’re vegetarians, so when we get to the third little piggy, we always make up something silly for the pig to eat instead of roast beef. My vegetarian parents always had my [...]

Tagged as: funny, rio, serena

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Yak & Yeti: Like a Newborn Baby

May 26, 2010

For Rio’s birthday dinner, we went to the new Indian place around the corner, Yak & Yeti. By “around the corner” I mean in Ball Sq., our lovely little very slowly growing corner of Somerville. By “new” I mean, they opened their doors for business for the very first time on the same day Rio [...]

Tagged as: food, reviews, rio

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Happy 6th Birthday, Rio!

May 24, 2010

Rio is 6 years old today. 6! 6 is much too big. I cannot possibly be the mother of a six-year-old. Yet there it is. I can still feel, when I close my eyes, the exquisite touch of her soft, squirmy, wet self being laid in my arms for the first time. I can hear [...]

Tagged as: birthday, family, parenting, rio

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The Queen of Cups Quits Her Day Job

May 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, I sat down with a friend. A Tarot deck lay between us. “Lay out two paths,” I said. “I want to see how my life goes, who I am, on either side of this decision.” She laid out the paths. On one side, I continued teaching preschool and writing as a [...]

Tagged as: blog, career, day, homeschooling, job, jobs, parenting, preschool, preschool teacher, quits, quitting, rio, serena, tarot reading, teaching preschool, wildflowers, writing

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Growing In The Garden: The Garden Turns Green Again

April 16, 2010

Ever since Serena’s godfather planted a rosebush for her last summer, Rio has wanted one. A brilliant white to contrast her sister’s red, like Snow White, Rose Red sisters in the fairy tale. Last week, John took both girls to the big garden center and came back with a truckload of soil, mulch, fertilizer and [...]

Tagged as: fairy tales, garden, garden project, gardening, greens, growing in the garden, medicinal plants, mulch, plants, rio, rose, rose red, rosebush, snow white, the garden

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Look, Mom! I Can Ride My Bike!

April 6, 2010

Rio came home from school yesterday bubbling with spring fever. It was our first really warm spring day, and she couldn’t wait to get outside and plant things in the garden, ride her bike, visit her friends…you know, be a kid. I could totally wait to do all those things, because I was sick, sick, [...]

Tagged as: bike, bike riding, bikes, parenting, rio, serena, spring fever, training wheels, warm springs, wheels, wooden bike

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More on the Wonders of Quitting

March 26, 2010

My post on ‘Why I Quit Everything’ is featured on BlogHer today. I love BlogHer. I’m proud to be part of their publishing network, and thrilled that they’re sharing my writing with their readers. If you haven’t seen the new BlogHer site, go there right now. It’s a thing of beauty. If you came here [...]

Tagged as: alternative education, blogher, childhood, education, educational philosophy, feature, free-range parenting, fun, homeschooling, ian, quits, remember, rio, serena, slow parenting, unschooling

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Those Princesses Are So Last Week

March 19, 2010

A few nights ago, Rio was carefully eyeing Molly‘s bike helmet. The shiny black helmet sets off the pink horns nicely. The flowing pink braids give it a sweet touch. Molly calls it her Valkyrie helmet. “Can I try it on?” Rio asked. Yes. She tried it on. She ran around the house prancing and [...]

Tagged as: american idols, bicycle helmet, bike helmets, disney princess, funny, helmet, helmets, pink helmets, princess, princess bike, princesses, recreation, rio

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Speaking Of A Room Of One’s Own

March 17, 2010

This post brought to you by Rio. I had another whole screed planned about the business of blogging and how women are being consumed by big media and advertising agencies, but it will have to wait. Rio had a topic request for today. It went like this: Rio said, “What is the New York Times, [...]