I was just having this conversation on Twitter about food and ethical food and blah blah and was reminded about something that was a HUGE part of my life as a kid that I rarely think about now because it is such a product of a bygone era. Food co-ops ( Read more... )

jbknowles, cfaughnan and carriejones all blogged today about childhood play. I love this topic! It's one of my favorite topics, and it's been on my mind anyway because I've been reading a book, Secret Spaces of Childhood, that is about play among other things. (Secret spaces! It's a broad topic ( Read more... )

kellyrfineman has been making some fabulous posts about her favorite children's books as a kid and what grabbed her about them. She's talked about some classics. Great stuff. Naturally, it got me thinking why I loved my favorite books, other classics like Emily of New Moon ( Read more... )

Okay, thoughts are trickling out now. I keep thinking of them as rain. I'm imaging them falling out with little moist pit pats and splashing on leaves. I have the strangest ideas sometimes ( Read more... )

I grew up on a five acre property. Half of it was swamp, and we couldn't go back there, unless Dad cleared it in a canoe and took us out in it. I can only remember that he did this once, and it was very beautiful back there. Lots of lilypads. But we still had a lot of room to play. The terrain was flat, mostly, with palmetto bushes that were very ( Read more... )

I wish I was in a coffeehouse right now. It's 11 pm and I'm wearing a sundress and listening to Iggy. "I wanna be your dog" is a song that makes me think of Java Jabbers, the coffeehouse I used to frequent in my early teens, mostly, well, entirely because my Dad's friend Bob Rafkin used to always play there. It was folk music but during breaks they ( Read more... )