Recently, I invited my Instagram followers to share what they the holidays should be about and the answers were enlightening. Love. Family. Togetherness. Grounding. Connecting. Slowing down. Gratitude. Wonder. Hygge. Rest. Giving. Good food. Simplicity. Mother Earth. Being present. Making memories. … [Read more...]
3 Reasons Introverted Kids Need Nature
There's a classic scene in the 1938 short film by Disney, Ferdinand, where the mother of the peaceful bull asks him why he prefers to sit under his cork tree over play-fighting with the other bulls. The placid bull responds, "I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.” … [Read more...]
Pre-Order The Open-Air Life
If you've read my first book, There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather, you might have wondered what happened after my daughters and I came back to the U.S., following our extended stay in Sweden in 2016. The answer is that the girls started the fall semester at their ordinary school, while I finished … [Read more...]
9 tips to get outside with teens and tweens
"When my kids were little, getting outside was easy but now, when they're older, it's hard to get them engaged in outdoor pursuits. I don't know what to do - it's almost like starting over again." Sounds familiar? If so, you're not alone. Almost on a weekly basis, I'm contacted by parents who … [Read more...]
How to really enjoy – and not merely survive – winter
When I lived in Indiana, a curious thing happened every year around the time when the Thanksgiving turkey was in the books and the morning frost began to drape the neatly mowed small-town lawns. The drop in temperature and gradual loss of daylight seemed to signal that it was time for outdoor … [Read more...]
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