These are just a few of the headlines that blared off Google’s News feed last week: “World economy to shrink by 1-2 percent in 2009” “Unemployment rises in 99.7 percent of metro areas” “Rescuing the Economy Just Got Harder”. Pass the St. John’s wort, please. It’s hard not to despair about the state of the…
I used to buy a pocket calendar each year – the kind people used to jot appointments and reminders in before Smartphones. I excitedly wrote everyone’s birthdays in it, marked out vacations and holidays … then ditched it somewhere around January 4. I never seemed to have a problem remembering where I was to be…
Observe the equinox to help kids connect with nature, learn about other cultures, value tradition, and have fun doing it. In the stretch of years between childhood and childbearing, my husband and I got lazy about celebrating holidays. Why bother with all the decorating, cooking, baking, and buying when it was just us? We rolled…