Mid-hiatus Montana Mini-vacation

or…Geology 101.
On the spur of the moment, we decided to drive to Montana this weekend. We had heard from another family about a fun destination not too far away (four hours or so), and with the long weekend, we went for it.
In order to prepare for the trip, we had to go to the Army [...]

Napoleona’s Fifth Birthday!!

A guest post from Anthropapa
The little princess turned FIVE today!!! Yikes!  We started with the MamaPapa chorus of “We wish you a ha-a-a-py birthday” and then seeing the first present of the day, a doll house from Nana.  Next, it was off to our favorite bagel shop for the usual birthday tradition of a breakfast [...]

How Clean Is Your Electricity?

I Image via Wikipedia

I came across this fascinating resource in an article in my daily email from the Mother Earth News:
The US Environmental Protection Agency has a neat little web thingy called the Power Profiler, which will show you what sources of electric power generation your local utility uses and what kinds of air [...]

Doing My Part to Help Obama

Is it just me, or is it not amazing that President-elect Obama is broadcasting weekly YouTube videos and has a blog? I could be cynical, and think that all this is an empty gesture to lull us into thinking we’re getting transparency and open communication. But I’m not gonna.
I recently subscribed to the change.gov blog [...]

An Honorable Man

I just finished watching McCain’s concession speech live on CNN.com. Whether I wanted him to be president or not, his speech choked me up. Now, that was good sportsmanship. I like that he emphasized the honor of serving his country, in whatever capacity. Certainly McCain gets my respect for his dignified, admirable demeanor and words [...]

I would be sharing Hallowe’en photos with you…

…but I can’t find my camera cable! Aaaaagh!
Hopefully I’ll find it tomorrow, because I did get shots of the red-tailed hawk, the fairy princess, the creepy jack-o-lantern, and the egg-carton spider garland. And there will be Dia de los Muertos stuff on the morrow as well.
Stay tuned….

Sick of Gloom and Doom Politics?

Then go read this instead. It’s geeky and funny and rings true in spots.

A Reply to Nana

In yesterday’s post, Nana left a comment responding to my anxieties about sending my kids to private schools that are not Waldorf:
hokay! I’m an outsider here and will probably cause some apoplexy for some of you. Does anyone think it odd that a system (and don’t try to deny that it is, indeed, a system) [...]

Parzival’s Mother

The medieval German Romance Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach, is read widely in Waldorf high schools and teacher training courses, as a rich allegory for the modern human’s struggle for inner development (or as Rudolf Steiner put it, the development of the consciousness soul). (See here for an interesting article on how the story of [...]

Visit the Hermitage

Have you ever discovered a place, in your wanderings along the busy highways and leafy byways of the internet, a place so intriguing and beguiling, so full of wonders and mysteries, that you never want to leave for fear of missing some new delight?
I have.

Far away and long ago, there was a place that is [...]