There is a secret to eating healthy, and not calling for that emergency greasy pizza box– it’s in your pantry. More precisely, what you put in your pantry. You can be sure of one thing: meal time will be crazy every night. Here’s the only chance you’ve got to put yourself a bit ahead of [...]
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UPDATE: Our power came back on around 6:30 p.m. — about 18-19 hours without heat. The inside temp was 50. The day was not idyllic. I did not like being held captive by four rambunctious boys all day along who thought their idea of fun was to build a fort in one room, and see [...]
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It’s been a tough week. Facing death’s sting, coming to terms with the limits we have in this physical world, watching the end of childhood, and cold, bleak weather that makes me want to stay home and never go outside again. This morning, like so many others, I woke to the sound of wooden Brio [...]
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He studies the garden railroad book. The book with real pictures of miniature railroads. The trains that have real smoke coming from the engines, that climb across miniature bridges, and wind around tiny plants that look like trees.“Can you buy this for me?” I explain that the trains are too fragile for little hands. Your [...]
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Have you noticed this? Funerals move too quickly – they close the casket before you’re ready I need — and want — to linger. Is this is a favor? That truck with the dirt shows up as we leave the grave. Please, don’t let me see. He lived a long life so, [...]
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Snow! Snow! Snow! Nothing brightens up a gray, dreary day better than crisp, white, crunchy snow — a gift to an otherwise overcast blah, Winter day. If there’s no chance of snow, you can make your own snow out of ordinary computer paper. Check out these patterns. Soon, you will definitely be generating some white [...]
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I avoid this topic like the plague. Kids need to play, explore, and build their imaginations, and preschools that put an emphasis on reading, math and handwriting steal those opportunities from kids. My statement usually incites anger and probably fear, in parents who’ve already justified the decision that their child needs to build elementary skills [...]
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at the lake… This is a photo of the steam coming off the lake, from the warmer water beneath the ice as it hits the zero degree air above. Cold.
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When I was little, before gas prices skyrocketed, my Dad used to love to take us for a Sunday drive in the country to see one-room school houses and old abandoned cemeteries. Our drive to the lake is 3 hours, and most of the drive has no direct route via interstates. Instead, we drive through [...]
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