This week's stories are The Shoemaker and the Elves collected by the Brothers Grimm, and The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson. Between the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian…
Winter is dark and the earth is hard. There always seems to be a question, will we be able to make it through the hard times of winter. “Darkness…
Definitely check out Wendy Pfeffer's The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice. She manages to meld science, nature, myth, history and various ways that different human cultures represent and celebrate…
With the winter solstice coming up next week we have been preparing for winter, celebrating the sun and learning about what causes the changes of the seasons. The story of…
The last crickets have stopped chirping. There is a startling, almost unsettling, shift and rapid change which happens in November in New England that always takes me by surprise. Whereas…