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Meet Phineas, our first real foster dog! Really!! Its not that we’ve never shared our roof with a dog that wasn’t our own, because believe me, we’ve had our fair share of dogs come through our house over the years. Some of them never left. Some we found and knew we’d keep until they found their...
On the heels of PhoDographer’s first ever fundraising campaign, I thought I’d share a post with some connection to the ideals of the fundraiser’s recipient, Mercy For Animals, whose motto is “inspiring compassion”. If you’re a parent looking for a children’s book that touches on the topic of extending one’s own circle of compassion, I’d highly...
Inspired by my cousin’s post about her new pet pot-bellied pig, Bacon, I searched the archives for my own pig photo. One of my all-time favorite images, this was taken in 2004 when I took a trip out to Oh Mah Nee Farm Sanctuary with Nathan Runkle, founder of Mercy For Animals. Please help me...
This morning, I was treated to the simple joy of watching my boys partake in The Cincinnati Waldorf School’s Winter Garden ceremonies. The celebration of festivals is an important part of Waldorf education, with seasonal celebrations that are interwoven with the life of the earth and the cycles of nature. There is no festival in...
Years of collecting and saving our wrapping paper, tissue, ribbons and bows, and Chris will be glad to know that we’ve finally gone through just about all of it. As a snow day activity, Connor, Aiden and I took out our collection and wrapped all of their teacher gifts, each in a different combination of...
