From our family to yours, HAPPY 2013! To make this fab New Year’s sand castle I took my girls and my husband to the beach with pails and shovels. “Mom, are we really going to the beach on December 31st?” asked the girls. Why of course, we’ll have the beach all to ourselves. Indeed as [...]
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They bring up images of Jack London’s novel in the Yukon during the 10th century Klondike Gold Rush, images of the extreme dog sled race Iditarod taking place over 1,150 miles of Alaska’s roughest wildest terrain. Alaskan huskies are magical animals. Trained to run 100 miles a day, they are unparalleled in speed for sled racing. Part wolf, [...]
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Adam Sandler’s movie Grown Ups may not seem the most likely reference in nature and kids but there’s an interesting scene I need to relate. At a lake house in New England, five families with kids get together over the 4th of July weekend. The five dads are sitting outside drinking beer and talking about [...]
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At first glance, I wouldn’t have said chutney was kid-friendly food. The name sounds funny, it’s chunky inside the jar, you can’t squeeze it out of a tube and it’s tangy – definitely no ketchup. And yet my 7-year old loves a good chutney with grilled meats and her absolutely favorite is fig chutney. I’ll [...]
more »When Kamp Grizzly, a Portland advertising agency, contacted me to be involved in a video production in the Bay Area, I thought “oh well, it’ll be 10 seconds in a small clip on kids and nature.” Out of curiosity I emailed back and received an offer to be part of a video product for Keen [...]
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