“Mama, will you tell me a story?” my three-year-old son Ezra asks as I tuck him in at night. Who could refuse, right? Of course, the moment I utter, “The end”, the follow-up request comes: “Another story, Mama? About a turtle.” We usually negotiate the number of stories to three. Inventing three stories a night…
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American child will cost his parents $222,360 by the time he turns 17. I’d like to refute that number since so far my husband and I have needed to buy very little for our three-year-old son Ezra. We thrived without many of the must-haves on the…
You’ve probably heard about the dangers of multitasking. Apparently trying to do more than one thing at a time is worse for your productivity than staying up all night watching infomercials or smoking marijuana. In one study, students took 40 percent longer to solve complicated math problems when they had to switch to other tasks….
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde “I like you, Mama,” my son calls as he runs through the house. There’s nothing quite like a toddler’s adoration of his parents. I can almost believe it will last forever … then I remember being…
Recently I heard an interview with the herbalist Cascade Anderson Geller. She shared a story about a teacher and healer she met in the remote Choco region of Northern Ecuador, where she went to learn about the local plants and healing methods. Geller had been suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome and had consulted scads of…
As spring blossoms around us, we’re anticipating an exciting change for our little family. We’re expecting another baby, due at the end of August. It feels entirely different than the first time, mostly because there’s much less research and preparation involved this go around. We already have an amazing team of midwives, who we’re thrilled…