Category: Green Living

Vitamin N, by Richard Louv What greater week to introduce Louv’s newest book than screen-free week! I found Louv’s Last Child in the Woods completely life-changing and inspiring as a parent, and was thrilled to find out, when writing this article for the Post, that he had written a book entirely dedicated to ideas, advice, projects, and activities to get … Continue reading “Reading…”

Holy moly, it’s May! This week marks Screen-Free Week, a time when communities (and particularly their children) around the world unplug together and reconnect with the world around them. We did this last year and it was a great success. Though, I must admit, not much of a difference from the daily lives for our kids, who … Continue reading “Screen-Free Week!”

This past week, our neighbor came over, panting and out of breath from a recent run, and stuck his head over the back fence. “You have to come see this!” he exclaimed, wide-eyed. “We have hit the morel jackpot!” He lead me, carefully stepping through the grass under our apple tree, to a patch of … Continue reading “Morel Mushrooms… In Our Yard!”

Today is Earth Day (it also happens to be Andrew and my 9th wedding anniversary — no surprise to those of you who were there at our very hippy-dippy wedding so many years ago)! To celebrate the importance and joy of getting out into nature, I happily accepted the task of writing a cover story … Continue reading “Happy Earth Day!”

Early last summer, Milo begged and begged us to let him get a pet. While the true wish was for a rabbit, we decided that would be unwise, given the track record of our Jack Russell Terrier (who has murdered countless squirrels, rabbits, birds, moles, mice, etc. in her 14 years. Gruesome, I know). We … Continue reading “Toads”