Like a vessel on the horizon, online learning is coming into sharper focus as the future of education. You’ve seen classrooms change with the times, adapting to the digital age. But online learning isn’t just a new coat of paint on an old system – it’s a complete transformation. It breaks down traditional education boundaries,…
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Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage Book Launch
I always enjoy going to Lisa Rogers’ book events. I didn’t realize that I was slightly familiar with John Cage, the subject of her most recent picture book, Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage, illustrated by Il Sung Na. At her book launch at Wellesley Books, I learned that he was a kind of…
Food for the Future: How to Grow Shitake Mushrooms
I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mexico and his family had a mushroom farm! What an incredible coincidence! Have you ever wondered how to grow mushrooms? Most commercial mushrooms…
My Art for the Aquent Talent Show 2023
I made a video of my watercolor paintings for my company’s virtual show. This is the long version. I submitted a shorter version that is half the length. I started watercolor painting as a form of mental health therapy back in 1995. I enjoy it so much that I’ve been taking art classes ever since….
My Urban Foraging Class
I took a foraging class with David Craft. He’s a cancer researcher in Cambridge, MA in his free time when he’s not foraging. He also wrote the book Urban Foraging: Finding and eating wild plants in the city. This is my second foraging class. The first one I forced my kids and husband to come…
48+ Children’s Books for Kids Who Admire Astronauts!
Space… the final frontier. I’ll admit that Star Trek got me really into space travel and thinking about what lies beyond our own solar system. These days when we think of earlier times when the predominant belief was that the earth was flat, we think this is such a naive perspective. We also thought the…
45+ Great Dinosaur Books for Kids (and videos)
Here’s our favorite dinosaur books both stories and non-fiction.