Curiosity Journal: August 31, 2011
Each Wednesday I’m recording a Curiosity Journal, a recap of the past week. Tag words are: reading, playing, learning, reacting
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Food on Fridays: We Are Real (and so is the food)
(smaller button below) Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love
change, family, frugality, Lifelong Learning, mind, reading, self-discovery
End of an Era
We used to live in a town with a gorgeous library that I’ve used and loved since 1988. When we
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Simple Ways We've Gone Green
Visit this post at NotSoFastBook.com to enter the Green Mama book giveaway—ends Saturday morning, June 19.Each weekend during soccer season,
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Food on Fridays: Taste-Testing Chickpea Soup
(smaller button below) Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love
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Let the Laugh Lines Come!
We parents joined the circle of junior high kids to pray together before sending them off on a week-long bicycle
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When "Watch Me, Mama" Gives Way to Individuation
My 14-year-old daughter had a friend over to spend the night last weekend. Due to scheduling conflicts, the girl, a
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People and Privacy
I was talking with a friend of mine about how people relate—or don’t relate—in our world today.My friend said, “I
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Time for Yes
Throughout spring, my kids would come to me with requests to join their friends on outings such as sleepovers, birthday
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Ten Random Things I Haven't Mentioned
Sometimes my posts don’t reflect my daily life.It’s not that I’m hiding anything; it’s just that I sometimes don’t take
Imperfect Conditions
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” (Ecclesiastes 11:4, New Living Translation) If I
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An Atmosphere of Affirmation
At HighCallingBlogs.com today, Bradley J. Moore of Shrinking the Camel explores the question, “When is Negative Feedback Too Negative?” He
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The Collision of Work and Family: Bump
In A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle wrote: During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to
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Wogging the Mini
We’re training for a half-marathon with our girls. Boy, has it been hard to drag ourselves out and log the