[1 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
The Little Travelers

I was thrilled when I stumbled upon The Little Travelers, a series of DVDs by a southern California woman talented in video production who homeschools her two little girls and travels extensively with them.

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[1 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
The Little Travelers

I was thrilled when I stumbled upon The Little Travelers, a series of DVDs by a southern California woman talented in video production who homeschools her two little girls and travels extensively with them.

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[28 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Princesses, Frogs, Etc.

I am not generally a big fan of animated movies, but Disney’s new movie “Princess and the Frog,” in which they return to their traditional, classic style of animating, was surprisingly enjoyable.

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[21 Dec 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
Our Chickens Came First. And Then The Eggs.

In which we get chickens, and start gathering eggs.

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[7 Dec 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
Caldecott Books

I am a reader. According to my grandmother, when I was young I would set my alarm clock for 30 minutes earlier than I needed to get up for school, just so I could read. I don’t remember that, and as I am also a sleeper I can hardly believe it (though I do).
I do remember that I would stand on my bed at night and rest my book on the windowsill, where I could read by the light of the moon.
Recently, through Facebook, I heard from a person I …

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[29 Nov 2009 | One Comment | ]
100 x 100

I sometimes do what people call “spring cleaning” at the end of a year, when I get a hankering to straighten up the place — to get rid of some of the clutter that inevitably creeps into our house over the months, clean, and make room for a fresh, clean new year and its possibilities.
It was in the middle of my current purging of no-longer-needed papers from file cabinets and taking no-longer-worn clothes to Goodwill that I stumbled across a project by the photographer Michael Wolf.
Wolf is a German photographer who …

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