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Light the candles tonight

December 1, 2010

It’s the first night of Hanukkah, the festival of lights (one of the festivals of lights, that is, not to discount Diwali and regional events all over). Even if you’re not Jewish, this is a good time of year to light candles against the early dark. Three more weeks until the shortest day, and then [...]

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Free your ass, and your mind will follow

November 29, 2010

This came into my inbox this morning and made me smile and want to hop a bus to Somerville. I can’t attribute it properly, because Sam Davis, guitarist for the illustrious Funky White Honkies described below, credited the quote only to a “local rag.”
“The Funky White Honkies are a rag tag band of fine New [...]

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Vote early and often (in your lifetime)

November 2, 2010

You may not have noticed the political slant of this blog, but I believe I allude to it on the About page. Reading to our kids, and reading with them, helps them grow into discerning citizens who can “sift through the various forms of doublespeak prevalent today,” who can listen well to the clamoring voices [...]

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All Hallows’ Eve

November 1, 2010

I couldn’t help feeling this year, walking around a charming nearby village with scads of costumed kids and grownups, that Halloween has been pretty thoroughly declawed and defanged. It made me think of Bruno Bettelheim’s commentary on Halloween in A Good Enough Parent. Bettelheim postulates that Halloween has been co-opted by grownups. Where once it [...]

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50,000 imperfect words

October 13, 2010

Brené Brown is asking us to join in a Perfect Protest this week, in honor of her new book The Gifts of Imperfection. In response, I want to offer a giant shout out to one of my heros, Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, Script Frenzy, and the Young Writers Programs associated with [...]

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Don’t you want to study yoga with this woman?

October 5, 2010

Here she is as Mother Nature pinup girl, the more-life kid, lovely beside the leeks.

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Making cider (try this at home)

September 25, 2010

Get a bunch of cousins or neighbors or friends together and pick apples off some untended trees. (These were tended, once upon a time, by my great-great uncle—tended so well, in their day, that they still bear crisp, delicious apples, a couple of generations later.) The apples may be wormy, but that just increases the [...]

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butterfly pie

September 7, 2010

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