Our (more or less) Organic Family: Renewing the Commitment
Our family has been striving for a mostly-organic, local-when-possible, planet-friendly, and heart-healthy diet for years – ever since our first baby was born. Still, we occasionally need to review guidelines for good food choices, just...
A Sense of Place
A few years ago I read Richard Louv’s much-celebrated book Last Child in the Woods. In fact, I read it while I rocked my infant daughter in her first weeks. Louv’s wonderful descriptions of child-built tree houses and child-led wilderness...
The Receiving End of Help
I recently posted about the Complicated Psychology of Help, not realizing how soon I would be on the receiving end myself.
When the insane coughing cold from you-know-where reached our house last week, laying up both kids and my six-month-pregnant-self,...
How Children can Help Victims of Japan’s Disaster
The images are heartbreaking. The news coverage brings more tales of danger and potentially greater catastrophe every hour. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake, massive tsunami, and now nuclear crisis devastating Japan is impossible to turn away from....
A Habit of Helping Hands
Doing Good Together’s creator and Executive Director Jenny Friedman recently asked me to take a look at the ways in which doing good has become a habit in our home.
This was a good opportunity to take stock of all the little ways in which...
Kinder Book Club: Grandmother Stories
Are you volunteering with Meals on Wheels or your local nursing home? Or are you looking for ways to help your child connect with older people beyond the basic stereotypes that pervade our culture?
Grandmother Stories: Wise Woman Tales from...
Literary Toolbox: Citizen You
I recently ran across a library book that simply demanded to be read. Perhaps you’ve already encountered it; if so, please share your thoughts.
Citizen You by Jonathan Tisch was the perfect remedy for my flagging motivation.
I blame my...
