It is POURING today. Millions of nature's teardrops are playing a rhythmic tune on the red metal roof. Leonard Cohen is singing in the b...

It has been a crazy summer so far, driving back and forth between the country and the city, packing, unpacking, planning, driving, catching ...

Every night we pick three books to read. Both my husband and I love picture books, so we have a lot of them. Yet I find myself reaching for ...

My daughter was in one of the local Waldorf parent-child classes this spring.  The program focussed on a slow separation process between p...

For this post I decided to review one of my favorite NOT new picture books. I have quite a few. When I looked some of the books up on Amazon...

I just came across this wonderful article on a study done by Dr. George Valliant. He has been following the lives of a group of men for deca...

Sorry for the hiatus. It’s been a busy two weeks. But I am back and it’s time to talk about Flower Girl. Where I grew up in Belgium, childre...

I picked up a picture book at our local independent bookstore. The Story Blanket , written by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz, illustrat...

I know, it's been a while... What can I say. I have been knitting. After being asked a few times if the Bella & Bean hats were avai...

In between rain showers, in a nearby park, we celebrated the coming of spring, with people from my daughter's school. Everybody brought ...