A Homeschool Story

As I wait for the fries to be done frying and the boys to finish grilling the hamburgers, I thought about how our favorite (though naughty) ...

A Soup to Astonish This will taste like the best, creamiest tomato soup you have ever served, but it really contains an extra ingredient t...

In the interest of training our eyes, minds and hearts to recognize what is beautiful; a painting, great music, a well-crafted speech, arch...

Advice from the doctors when wondering what to do about pain, be it joint, muscle, tendon: keep exercising! Really. See here: When it's...

Attitude is everything, dah-ling. Yes, quite, and this morning, I am happy for the cool weather, a healthy family and a warm home. So much ...

Over the years in France, I have admired many different ways of making a home beautiful, elegant, inviting and warm. I was also born to par...

I woke this morning to a smell that made me smile and dig down under the down comforter for another minute...the heat came on in the night....

Eagle Point Park; the fish pond. This and the park's buildings were built during the Great Depression, when Franklin Delano Roo...

We have begun our "Man and Animal" block, as it is known in Waldorf/Steiner schools. We learn all about animals and humans and mor...

From the first week and our first poem of the year: "Cargoes" by John Masefield, a "quinquereme." Poem taken from A Jou...

The time has come. Cate, 17, is ready to apply to college and figure out how it will be paid for. Daunting! That is what I wrote when I...

It is beyond good to be home, and yet, there are so many lingering thoughts, photos and events to chronicle, and so many things to do first...

First confession: I do not love the beach. The ocean, though, is part of my very soul. I love the ocean, especially in the off-season, when...

The two months here have meant different things to each of us, but I have not said much about the youngest two; Charles, 10 and Gael, 6, w...

Lucky for me, I have friends with such determination and powers of persuasion that I end up escaping for a minute (or a couple of days) to ...