Gainful Unemployment May 16, 2012 Tags: gainful unemployment Life without a job can be full of profitable ventures. It was just getting dark the night of November 1st, 1999 as I locked my bike outside my Ithaca apartment, walked inside and learned from my roommate that Bob had been trying to reach me. He was […]
Perfect Moment
Ula captures the world on her i-soap Perfect Moment April 10, 2012 Tags: traveling with kids At its best, travel is a patchwork of glorious moments, too perfect and rich for all the senses to be captured simply in photographs. Ula reminded me of that the other day. We’re presently renting an apartment in a […]
Health Lessons from a Local Diet
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve been fully immersed in the local food movement, investigating and promoting the ways that it helps to heal the earth, build community resilience, improve local relationships, enable healthier partnerships between humans and livestock, and improve our well-being. That last attribute has been an interesting sticking point for our family […]
Au Revoir, St. Pierre
Saoirse started crying during dinner a few nights ago. We’d just returned from an evening stroll around our temporary home, St. Pierre de Maille, where spring has taken a definitive hold. Along the walk we’d passed by fields plowed and freshly seeded, cattle finally out on pasture, neighbors out doing the seasonal work that comes […]
French Bob
You’re never too old to speak from the heart French Bob March 30, 2012 Tags: homeschooling, traveling with kids I would be lying if I told you I was a linguist. But from the time I was a child, the ability to speak languages ranked high on my life priorities. It distressed me as a […]
Traveling to Experience Community
Traveling to Experience Community March 24, 2012 Tags: traveling with kids Kids can open doors wherever your adventures may take you. This is the second trip that our family has made to the rural village of St. Pierre de Maille, a small community never mentioned in the guidebooks that lies about an hour south of […]
Foreign Adventures
Swash-buckling pirates along the River Medway I am prone to crazy and impulsive notions. Bob is inclined to indulge them. When Saoirse was 18 months old, we packed her up and moved to Europe for three months. I know a lot of people raised their eyebrows that a young couple, new to the throes of […]
Is Climate Change a Four Letter Word?
Kids need to love the earth before they can save it March 1, 2012 Tags: parenting, radical homemaking Saoirse and Ula are no strangers to four letter words. They’re growing up with farmers, for crying out loud. And no self-respecting farmer around Schoharie County is going to doll up the natural functions of nature with […]
Nothing Says Love Like Filet
Love me tender…with the tenderest of cuts February 14, 2012 In the fifteen years Bob and I have been together, we’ve figured out how to orchestrate the perfect romantic evening. Flowers and chocolates were long ago dismissed. Jewelry goes largely unappreciated. Fancy restaurants or elegant stays in romantic B&Bs are over-rated. An amorous evening for […]
Sheila Says We’re Weird Book Review
February 4, 2012 Tags: book reviews Sheila Says We’re Weird by Ruth Ann Smalley I’m here at the PASA conference in State College, PA, surrounded by a few thousand amazing souls. While leading a Radical Homemakers workshop yesterday, the question arose about how I am helping my daughters to make sense of the life they […]
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