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Adam of the Road
Every now and then, I have a dream. I’m supposed to be playing the piano somewhere, but I can’t find my music. I search and search, each effort leading to new delays. I…
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New birds
Today we went to a new place for a walk, and we got to watch a kingfisher for awhile. I couldn’t help thinking of the Hopkins poem about how “kingfishers catch fire,” one…
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A Girl of the Limberlost
A Girl of the Limberlost is sort of an early twentieth-century Cinderella story. Published in 1909, the novel is written by noted Indiana naturalist Gene Stratton Porter. The book tells the story of…
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Read-Aloud Thursday: Herons
We’re into herons around here this week. We saw no less than 6 of them at a nearby pond we visited the other day, and it sparked enough interest to read every word…
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C.S. Lewis and Nature
Carrie and her family saw a Narnia exhibit at a local science center recently, and she commented that she felt the “living green” emphasis was not true to Lewis’s writing. It went into…
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Wild Wings
We discovered Gill Lewis’ Wild Wings on the new books rack at the library yesterday. “Hey look,” I said, handing it to my 10-year-old, “it’s about an osprey.” She checked it out, and…
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How does your garden grow?
I used to participate in a round-up called the Sunday Garden Stroll over at A Wrung Sponge. The Stroll is no longer going, but today I snapped a few pictures of the garden…
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Planning and mulling
I’ve been exploring different math curricula online, trying to determine whether to make a change from Saxon this year for my second and fifth graders. I have no problem with the way Saxon…
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Girls Who Looked Under Rocks
I was pretty tickled to discover Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists, written by Jeannine Atkins. It includes short biographies of Maria Merian, Anna Comstock, Frances Hamerstrom, Rachel…
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The One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson’s One Minute Manager is pretty well-known, and my husband recommended it to me. He reread it recently and has mentioned it several times in connection with various behavioral…
