A few weeks ago, I watched the Temple Grandin HBO movie with Lucia, my daughter. Temple Grandin grew up with high-functioning autism, and i...

"Heart-shaped tofu! Are you kidding?" The first year I lived in Seattle was my "gap year" between college and gradua...

This past weekend, the House of Glee attended Steamcon III, an annual steampunk convention. This year's theme was 20,000 Leagues Under ...

A post I wrote for the NaturalKids Team blog, which you may find here , highlights some folk and fairy tale-themed creations my fellow ar...

In 2007, when Lucia was 4.5 years old, she received her Little One named Snowdrop from the Little One Meadow. The Little Ones were not doll...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've read aloud Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking books to Lucia. We'd finished Ronia, the Ro...

Today, Lucia is eight years old. We had her immediate family + godparents celebration on Sunday (i.e. Mother's Day) because today is a c...

Yesterday was Bede's and my 10th wedding anniversary, but Bede was not in town to celebrate it. Last Friday, he flew to Canada after we ...

This is the last week of my daughter's time at her local Waldorf school. We spent much of November scrambling to find a school that woul...

As I mentioned in a previous post , I was working on a Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz dress for Lucia's Halloween costume. She...

Bede is going to have two art shows at local venues this winter. One art show will be at the coffee shop 3 blocks from our house. Lucia is p...

I have been reading aloud to Lucia the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I loved them as a child, and reread them many times. Whi...

In school last Wednesday, one of Lucia's friends was steering a "truck" full of things and stopped when he saw Lucia in his wa...

Lucia likes to hear the story of her birth. Sometimes she wants to hear what "rrrrrreally happened" at the hospital, and other tim...

Have you heard of the Halloween Fairy? I first heard of her through my daughter's school. On Halloween night, after the fun of trick-or-...

The House of Glee has returned from a trip back East in which we celebrated the wedding of my cousin to a lovely woman my brother and I refe...

There is a series of humorous easy nonfiction books by Patrica Lauber that Lucia currently enjoys. The three titles available so far are: W...

Music: This was my last week of French camp gigs. My last gig was a regular musical storytime akin to the ones I usually present. I didn...

From a conversation I had with Lucia yesterday evening: Me: Nancy Stewart is coming to the Madrona Library on July 1. Do you want to go, or ...

Today's field trip