In July, a renegade stalk erupted from a crack in the sidewalk in Brooklyn. Some neighbors thought the stalk resembled corn at first. As the flower and seeds began to form it became clear that it wasn’t corn. My curiosity about this rebel plant brought to mind the book, My Amazing Poo Plant by Moya Simons. In this book, a girl waters bird droppings in an empty… Read more →
The knife sharpening station at the Brooklyn Whole Foods has been missing it’s sage cutler, Christopher Harth, for some time now. If you read my earlier post about Harth, you know how dedicated he is to his craft; and so it is curious that he mysteriously disappeared this summer from his reliable post, where he diligently focused his efforts knife by knife.… Read more →
People always say, “Children don’t come with handbooks.” That’s certainly true, leading many of us to turn to the model of our own upbringing to inform our parenting style, or the advice of our friends or the parenting section of the local bookstore. However, I recently learned about one parenting handbook, called Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson, who, together with Lynn Lott and others, has written many… Read more →