Fart

Conversation overhead at a school: Dad: How was your day? Son: Great! I farted in the middle of class! Many children, especially many boys, enjoy literature about farts, if you’re willing to consider fart and literature in the same sentence. No two ways about it–the surprise, the disgust, the visceral experience captures their attention nearly […]

Reset

In attempting this 40 consecutive days of blogging, I’ve stumbled once before and missed one day. Then for the past few days, you could say I’ve been in face plant mode, missing many days! I deeply apologize and take responsibility. For a second I thought, How humiliating! Maybe I should just give up. Then  I wondered […]

Nature

Yesterday, as we read about the sensation felt by children in Thailand sinking their feet into rice paddies, gentle rain tickled our own feet. Under an awning, we sat on the “back porch” of our new center for The Living Bridge Academy, our day program. With all of our senses engaged as we read, no […]

Silence

“No music now, Mama,” my son requested after listening to two songs, even though he’d asked for the rowdy animal farm music in the first place. (Don’t get me wrong; we do rock out in morning traffic some days and we love, love, love it!) This time I sensed his request was more than a […]

Artplay

Artplay. OK, I made that word up just now. Perfect for this topic. Just like my hands made up this design of color tiles last week. Even if we’re not “natural” artists, allowing ourselves some time to create each month is key to recharging our batteries, stimulating problem-solving in other areas of our lives, and just […]