Christmas Family Traditions: Spending a Peaceful Christmas Day Together All Day
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011In trying to decide how to make Christmas Day special for our little growing family of three (and a half), we decided that it would be great to just spend the day together. Not just all in the same house at the same time, but actually physically together. Typically, daddy works during the day, mommy [...]
Heart of the Penguin
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011My brother Steven sent me a link to a great article today. Sue Flood, an “award-winning photographer and wildlife film-maker” who has been taking pictures in the Arctic and Antarctica for 20 years, found an emperor penguin chick with a love heart bib. I love hearts in nature; I think it shows that love is [...]
The Great White
Monday, February 28th, 2011I don’t know why people are so frightened of Maine winters. Yes, it’s cold… but it’s winter! Bundle up and you’ll be fine! I have been loving this, my first Maine winter, mostly because of the abundance of beautiful, sparkling white snow!! After a fairly long stretch of no snow, during which the snow mounds [...]
Book Review: The Last American Man
Monday, September 27th, 2010During my first 10 minutes of relaxation (aka the first ten minutes of Maddie’s nap), I finally finished the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. The book is, as one Amazon reviewer stated, “a fascinating book about an extraordinary but troubled man”, namely Eustace Conway. Despite her over-emphasis on his love life (which [...]
Escaping the Heat
Friday, September 3rd, 2010When we moved to Maine from New Jersey, I really thought we’d be escaping the 90+ degree, 100+% humidity summer days. I was hoping more for dry, cool breezy, 80 degree sun-shiney Maine summer days! While we have had an absolutely GORGEOUS summer this year (I really can’t complain one bit), the past few days [...]
New Heights, New Friends
Friday, July 16th, 2010We’ve been living in Maine for just over a month and we are settling in nicely. The Fourth of July we went on a gorgeous hike up Bald Mountain with some new friends–Leslie and Paul. I met Leslie first at the Parent & Child yoga class at Central Street yoga in Bangor; she was one [...]
The Lorax Speaks…
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. I am the Lorax, and I’ll yell and I’ll shout, for the fine things on earth that are on their way out! Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to [...]
Earth Yoga: Inspirations for Celebrating Earth Day with Kids and Teens
Monday, April 12th, 2010I recently had the best birthday weekend ever… one that incorporated lots of yoga, wonderful time spent with family, and joyous time with loved ones while we enjoyed nature on a sunny hike. Oh, and chocolate cake. I’ll write more about that soon… but for now, I want to share a wonderful article I found [...]
Into the Woods Again…
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Almost two months old, it was time to take Maddie on another hike. This time, I headed out with my family (Garrett was in China Town doing his Hung Ga Lion Dance for Chinese New Year… visit his blog at www.geethink.com for more on that) to another one of our favorite local hiking spots–The Great [...]
Feature in POE Mosaic Monday: Into the Blue
Saturday, February 6th, 2010This past Monday one of my photographs was included in a the gorgeous blue mosaic shown below…. the Mosaic Monday on the POE (Photographers of Etsy) blog. Mine is the photograph shown here, and on the mosaic it’s the third one down all the way on the left. The photograph is entitled Soft Cascades and it’s [...]
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