by Stephanie | Articles, Handmade & Homemade, Life
After dance recitals, music recitals, field days, end of year field trips, end of season soccer parties and yes, alas, the final day of school, I give you what you’ve been waiting for – an excuse to drink beer! Ahem, I mean, the June menu which is a...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
This morning I’m joining The Chaos and the Clutter and participating in their conversation about Tender Moments with Toddlers and Preschoolers. It’s official. Summer is here! (And then alternately I say in my head summer is here.) Maybe you too are familiar...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
In honor of the recent Cheerios commercial I am celebrating Loving Day today. June 12th is an annual celebration held on the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia. This decision legalized inter-racial marriage in the United...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
It was 1991 when I read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye for the first time. I have read it several times over the past twenty or so years as it always proves to instruct me in critical and deep ways. I went on to read all of Morrison’s texts and studied her with fervor...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
No doubt this week Cheerios is being talked about more than any other cereal. Not for its wholesome, multigrain flavor, but rather for the type of family it included in its most recent commercial. Take a gander. What did you think? This simple commercial has caused...
