by Dawn | Apr 26, 2013 | education reform, family, parenting, Teaching
We found a frog in the garden. A big, green Calavaras-county style bullfrog hiding under the straw. “Mom, he reminds me of a palaeobatrachus. That’s a dinosaur that was an amphibian. A dinosaur frog. Frogs are amphibians, you know. They live in the water...
by Dawn | Feb 9, 2013 | gratitude, Rhode Island
I lived in upstate New York through the ice storm of 1993. It reminded me of Narnia–probably, to this day, the most striking thing I have ever seen. It was stunning. Crystal ice encasing trees, bowing their branches in genuflection toward nature, refracting a...