My family lives in the pacific northwest, where the fall, winter, and spring is cool and drippy for the most part. You would think that when our beautiful summer weather finally comes to stay, that I wouldn’t be able to keep my kids indoors. Not so. I find that I really need to do a [...]
I was reminded of this great video, The Story of Stuff. Its a fun, interactive video that can explain consumption and planned obsolence of consumer goods. Watch it with your kids.
Wild Places is the focus of the Big Idea on our upcoming Episode 43. What scares us so about the wild? Is it lack of control? And if so, doesn’t lack of control sometimes pay its own dividends? My stack of reference books for this story are as tall as the Queen of Complicated Stuff [...]
“There was a house. The windows on all four sides faced south. A bear walked by the house. What kind of bear was it?”
That’s what my grandpa asked me. And he wouldn’t tell me the answer.
I thought and thought. I thought about bears- grizzly bears, black bears, brown bears, polar bears, and [...]
