Giving Thanks
This week's story, Giving Thanks, written by Jonathan London and paintings by Gregory Manchess,follows a father and son through a day outdoors and focuses on the father's practice of giving…
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November 14, 2018
I read some of my favorite stories and non-fiction children’s books and share stories of my own. Storytelling is a fundamental way of sharing our sense of the world and expressing our place in it. Stories frame everything we do in the world, what we know and don’t know, and our understandings of the impossible and possible. Stories encircle and open up the world.
A Handful of Quiet:Happiness in Four Pebbles
This week's "story" is a short section from Thich Nhat Hanh's book "A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles." I plan on writing a more substantive piece on meditating…
November 6, 2018
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
The story of the week is A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry. This exquisitely rendered depiction of the history of the Nashua River flows from when…
October 30, 2018
Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees
Jim Arnosky is a master naturalist who has devoted his life to sharing his knowledge, joy, delight and fierce protectiveness of the natural world with children. His entire oeuvre is…
October 24, 2018
The Earth on Turtle’s Back
I have the day off today because it is "Christopher Columbus Day." I would prefer, like many other people, that we as a society rename this holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day.…
October 8, 2018
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