Walk into any store and you will see Spider-Man backpacks and Princess lunch boxes and every kid dragging their parents to look at them. What kid wouldn’t want those? All it takes though is a cursory inspection to realize that these items are more form than function. The backpacks are rarely well-made, they aren’t padded,…

When parents ask me for insight one of the common frustrations during the school year is that their kids won’t talk to them about what they did during the day. When asked ‘What did you do today?’ The response is more often than not, ‘nothing’ or ‘I don’t know.’ I think parents feel like their…

We spent the day at the Dutchess County Fair yesterday. It was a wonderful day full of interacting with animals, eating bad fair food and riding on questionable fair rides. We returned home, full of experiences, excited about our plans to get chickens in the spring and exhausted. I also came home with a bit…

Our individual energy is a powerful thing. Personally if I am ungrounded (disconnected, panicked, frustrated, or outside my own body) I can short out many things from cars to computers. Once I was in Montauk and Caidin, my husband and I were out driving around. Out of nowhere a huge storm cell swept across the…

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