Legitmate Worries
Wemberly, Kevin Henkes’ anxious little girl mouse, has been on my mind recently. The thing to know—book title, Wemberly Worried, tells us so—is that Wemberly isn’t a cool cucumber. She worries. She worries about all kinds of things, from...Haiku for Health Care & Hope for the New Year?
In the weeks leading up the Presidential election last year, I practically could not sleep at all. Deep-seated anxiety kept me up (compounded by four children—one of them under one—MSNBC and the Internet). Things seemed so all or nothing, so war or peace,...Don't Just Buy Local, Give Locally
There’s been a lot of emphasis, especially in this dire economy and certainly this holiday season, about the import of buying local. The 3/50 Project has a simple idea about this (and some compelling numbers): basically, if every employed person spent $50 per...Parenting Equations, Grocery Expeditions, & Slippery Slopes
Sometimes the only way to describe parenthood is as a mathematical equation: I was nearing the end of one of those days just a few days ago, when lack of sleep plus loud, somewhat cranky kids equaled get-me-out-of-here; compounded by dearth of fruit and pasta, my...E-Edition
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