It’s spring again … the perfect time to rerun this post from last March… It’s spring, which means some people are stocking up on Round Up and Weed-B-Gon to prepare themselves for battle against my favorite flower – the humble dandelion. If you’re not as big a fan as I am of these yellow-headed “weeds”,…
The Christian Science Monitor published my essay “Learning to Listen Again” in their January 31 issue. (It was inspired by a post I wrote here last June.) My world has gotten a lot louder lately. My 2-year-old son, Ezra, just discovered noise. “Airplane, airplane, airplane.” He gestures toward the sky until I repeat, “Airplane.” “Car!”…
December 21 is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Locales above the Arctic Circle, including parts of Canada, Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Greenland, and the very northern tip of Iceland will experience 24 hours of total darkness. You can find out when the sun will rise and set where you…
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau My son didn’t want to leave the park. He tugged on my hand, pulling me toward the swings. “Let’s stay here.” The wind was starting to blow, rain spattering our faces. “Come on. I’m hungry,” my husband called. He was already halfway down…
Outside, the leaves are turning yellow, orange, and red. This weekend we hibernated while the wind blew and rain hammered down. I’ve always loved this season – the beginning of classes, the stillness in the afternoons, the smell of the air, baked apples, crunchy leaves underfoot, wood smoke curling into the sky. But lately fall…
When I was writing my New Year’s Resolutions series, I went on the lookout for simple and inexpensive ways we might live better in 2010. And it struck me how much we might be able to improve our lives by making just one small change. For instance what if someone committed to a daily walk?…