A Morning in the Garden
Yesterday was a bit showery (we had outrageous thunderstorms in the evening), so G and I mostly just played it cool at home. During a break in the rain we […]
Author Archives: mmtread
Life Lessons from Walt Whitman
When Walt Whitman first sounded his “barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world,” it was 1855 and much of the Old World did indeed consider the citizens of the […]
Word a Week Photo Challenge: Mountain
I haven’t participated in A Word in Your Ear’s photo challenge in a while, but when Sue’s dictionary dealt up ‘mountain’ this week, I got very excited indeed. What is […]
It You Love Them, Let Them Fail
Never, it would seem, have we been more anxious about making our kids happy, and never have we been doing such a botched job of it. We pamper them, overprotect […]
Pacifism 101
There is a citadel atop Gellert Hill in Budapest called aptly – if unimaginatively – enough, The Citadel. It’s a squat, unlovely building, hunkered upon the highest point along the […]
Planting for Pollinators
Reblogged from Little Home in the Big City: Did you know that honeybees are endangered. Well, they are. This is a pretty scary thing – pollinators play such a huge, […]
Nature: It Might Just Save Your Life
Normally I don’t publish material from other sources, but when this Facebook friend’s post popped up confirming many of the things that I’ve felt intuitively (but, sadly, without solid science […]
A Dozen Reasons to Take Your Kids Fishing
I stood on the mossy bank of a northern New England stream tinged green-tea and gold with fallen leaves and filtered light, a long, deep pool stretching out above me, […]
Memoirs of a Fisherboy
I was eight years old, and too small and weak. Two of my brothers worked on a deep sea fishing boat. The older, Tim, was a mate, helping gaff monstrous […]
Turn Your Kids into Guerillas
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m the last person who would advocate teaching our kids to engage in illegal activity. More or less. But I was raised by parents who […]
