Childhood art is magnificent, isn’t it? Children have a way of seeing and coloring the world in the early years without the constraints of reality, without...

Dear mother, I’ve been thinking lately about the looming school year and also about this oppressive heat, how every living thing seems to wither under...

We didn’t plant a spring garden this year, minus a few yukon gold potato plants (which we’ve already harvested) and a handful of herbs. The spring felt...

One of the greatest gifts in my thirteen years of motherhood has been friendship, having other women in my life to hash out the hard questions...

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is...

  Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh _____________________________ spring herbs + tales...

I don’t often write about specific curriculum here, mostly because I believe children and parents can thrive together in learning at home regardless of the...

“Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See __________________________...

My mother has frequently told me, “We will often do for our children that which we won’t do for ourselves. Sometimes that’s how we learn.” I’ve...

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they...