Posts by: Lisa
Dear Readers,
With great excitement, I am loading the articles for the month of May. The demise of my computer two weeks ago slowed things down for me but I’m continuing to work at it, little by little, on my teenager’s computer. I’ve extracted my old hard drive and will soon access the photos I […]
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Cheerful tidings to you for a Merry May! We are working hard to get the May issue up on the site with articles on the celebration of the May for the entire month as well as Mother’s Day. We have some new columns and new features in store for you this month including […]
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I am a chicken farmer. Well, I’m a writer who owns a chicken ranch. Or, to tell the truth, really my family keeps a few hens in our suburban backyard in California. Oh, and as of February 17, we now have ten growing chicks in our house, too. So, although we didn’t set out to […]
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Puppetry Column with Suzanne Down A Story Poem for Spring
Each month through the year, Suzanne will share with us an idea for puppet story.
I believe in story and puppetry for children that opens the heart and soul, and brings, through the listening and looking, a picture of the possibilities of goodness […]
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Food.
It both nourishes us and nurtures us.
It is essential for human life.
It interacts with all of our senses and can provide profound comfort and deep pleasure.
It is intimately connected to our emotions, our health, our ethnicity, our religion, and our culture, as well as politics, economics and even the environment.
When […]
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Every home has a hearth, that place where sparks are lit and warmth is kindled. Traditionally the hearth was a phyiscal site, always tended, made of stone and brick to provide the heat to cook food and warm people. The hearth provided a comfortable gathering place. Today we carry the hearth […]
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Farm, Garden and Grief
My story of growing up on a farm is a fairly typical one: chores, gardens, big machines, endless outdoor days doing everything and nothing, seasons cycling through births and deaths. Farmers seem to have an endless ability to accept the changeability of life with little complaint. Perhaps the weather trains them.
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Each month, we will bring you a picture of an early childhood program. With our debut issue, I am delighted to bring you a picture of Margaret’s Garden, tended by devoted caretaker, Danielle Epifani. Danielle works with children from 18 months to 9 years of age and has been doing this work for […]
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An Introduction and a Lesson in Mango Math
I didn’t always know I wanted to homeschool my children. To be honest, I hadn’t given theireducation much thought. But once my twin girls arrived and we began attachment parenting, the bond that formed was so intense that teaching them at home […]
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