Sometimes I miss the family car, especially when my friends seem to so effortlessly come and go, while my husband and I are plotting out our trips, negotiating whether we can fit all of our groceries in our bike trailer, and opting to stay home at times rather than trek across town after dark in…
You will be far more productive in the ensuing hours if you begin the day by spending five minutes actively engaged in doing nothing at all. – Karen Maezen Miller Last year at this time, I resolved to do something that seemed radical at the time – nothing. I made a commitment to sit for…
You know that feeling you get when someone says or writes something far better than you could have? I love that feeling. Here are 10 of the more memorable times it happened to me in 2010: When anthropologists spend time with aboriginal peoples, one of the very first things they almost always comment on is…
We’re all familiar with the learning curve – that slow, hiccuping start we get off to when we tackle a new task. The period where we suck at something, which is the necessary preamble to the period where we kick ass at something. I’ve watched my two-year-old son wobble, fall, and falter hundreds of times…
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…
