My daughter ran wildly up to our screen door.  “Mommy! Mommy!  I caught a toad! I caught a toad!  Look! Look!” (You know she’s really excited when she’s saying everything twice)  In her cupped hands was a lovely, bumpy, spotted, clever-looking toad.  She looked up at me excitedly as I snapped this photo: “He peed on me, but […]

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Parents love to  imagine that their children will do great things one day.  Who knows what’s in store for her? we wonder.  Who knows what education she’ll get, what career she will pursue, what difference she will make for the world?  Will she get married and start a family? Will she  blaze her own adventurous trail? We […]

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Girls are in a battle to embrace a healthy body image. They enter this world with no question that their healthy body is good, but we know that this world’s goal for girls  is to communicate that being healthy is not enough.  You must be slimmer, sleeker, smoother, tanner, and hairless with just the perfect […]

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