Waiting for Monarchs

Many folks, friends, and neighbors have said I should just “mow it all down.” Don’t think I haven’t considered it! I’ve been focused on weeding out the poison ivy, but it’s vines are buried under the vinca, and it’s more of a tangled mess than gum in a girl’s long hair! But if I mow…

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A good look at how wealth creates the disconnect… Rebel with a Cause: The Tyrant Neighbor | Flavor Magazine: The only independent publication dedicated to local food, Virginia wine, and sustainable agriculture in the Capital foodshed..

Learning is an Experience

Yesterday afternoon my boys were down at the creek behind our house finding tiny new crawdads, and asked if they could keep them. I immediately responded with the Kratt Brother’s mantra “All creatures deserve to live free and in the wild!” My younger son Jonny replied “But this isn’t the wild, it’s the city! The…

Social norms and the middle class model

Here’s the article in The Guardian that sparked this post: …people need a stake in society. This article reported that 84% of UK children who seek help from the group Kids Company are runaways, usually maltreated by their families. In the U.S., anywhere between 1.6 million and 2.8 million children runaway, or are thrown out…

I hope that by the time my children are old enough to vote we have a multi-party system.