Happiness

“You make a lot of decisions based on how you think they will make you feel in the future…The evidence is pretty clear, though, that big positive and negative events don't have an enormous impact on people's happiness.”

-Art Markman, Ph.D., “Your future happiness depends less on the present than you might think,” Psychology Today via Jezebel

Indie Mom

"An 'Indie Mom.' Yeah, I could be that. I can DIY my life. I could give myself permission to live a life that's beyond the picture of what's 'normal' in our culture. Not as an angry outsider (ugh, nothing worse than a self-proclaimed rebel), but as someone who relishes that she can build the multi-faceted, beautiful life she wants even as she colors outside the lines."

-Debra Goldstein, "Invention of an Indie Mom," The Huffington Post

Go Dutch

Photo: bloesem kids

Read this enlightening piece on the lives of women in the Netherlands.

Preschool Musical

Another Door Opens

When she comes to a dead end in a maze, Imogen just draws a door and goes through it!

I like that kind of thinking.

Maze: activitypad.com

Only A Test

Imogen came out of the library the other night with a pencil and paper. She was acting like a teacher. "Now," she said, writing something down, "it's time for your reading testicle."

It All Adds Up

Imogen working hard in the veterinary clinic at her school.

Photo by Teacher Susan

Halloween

Scents Of Salt And Seaweed

"America might be losing its connection to the woods and overprotecting its once free-range kids. But, I look at the little ones on the shore. It’s good to see the sights and smells of nature being passed on, how the Salish Sea is soaking into their blood, how the scents of salt and seaweed are being internalized. That will shape their sense of place. These kids might grow up taking it as a given that eagles should soar overhead, that low tide reveals fascinating critters and new worlds."

Knute Berger, Mossback, Crosscut

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