The Other Side of Gainful Unemployment
Earning a living from multiple enterprises can occasionally feel like a tangled mess. “Today, I will do one thing at a time.” These are the words I’ve been saying to myself each morning lately as I leap from my bed. I mindlessly repeat them while at the same time working through what time homeschool lessons […]
Acting Out
Acting Out May 24, 2012 Tags: parenting Maybe intervention isn’t always the answer. Saoirse and Ula are three years apart. Saoirse, 8, is unusually tall, slender, well-spoken, and comes across to grown-ups as particularly well-behaved and extraordinarily poised. Ula isn’t any of those things. At 5, she’s about a foot shorter than her sister, demonstrates […]
Gainful Unemployment
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 […]
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