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This week's Fact Friday Lindsay shares a fact from Switzerland. In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one parrot, guinea pig or...

This weeks Thought Thursday is one of Kara's Curiosities. Don’t you love how freely kids throw together their outfits, pictures and...

On this weeks Word Wednesday, Lindsay has presented the word "Brumous". Brumous (adjective, French, mid 19th century): Foggy and wintry....

On this weeks Topic Tuesday Meredith picks a quote from page 43 of What the Robin Knows by Jon Young. “Nature abhors a vacuum, and it...

On this weeks Manuscript Monday Lia recommends The Good Egg by Jory John and Pete Oswald. This is a cutie, cute, cute book and I love it!...

When learning is distilled down to the mere parroting of facts and concepts, the multisensory experience is lost.

On this weeks Silly Saturday Sarah is sharing a Baroness Von Sketch Show CBC Clip "Bangs".

This week's Fact Friday Lia shares a fact from Science Daily. Did you know spider webs were used as bandages in ancient time. NOOOOOOO...

This weeks Thought Thursday is one of Sarah's Sayings. Sarah is sharing an inspirational quote that her mother loves by N.J. Nielsen. “I...

On this weeks Word Wednesday, Lindsay has presented the word "Gardyloo". Gardyloo (noun, archaic, Scotland, 1760): A warning cry given...

On this weeks Topic Tuesday Meredith picks a quote from page Xxv of What the Robin Knows by Jon Young. “Every living being has a purpose,...

On this weeks Manuscript Monday Lindsay recommends Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I love non-fiction storytelling written in a...

This piece of artwork is inspired by Jon Young's book What the Robin Knows.

On this weeks Silly Saturday Kim is sharing an article by Interesting Engineering called "10 of the Silliest Inventions People Came up...

This week's Fact Friday Lindsay shares a fact from The Marathon du Médoc. There is a marathon in the Bordeaux region of France that...

This weeks Thought Thursday is one of Kara's Curiosities. Clapping is interesting: when something is really good, we switch over from...

On this weeks Word Wednesday, Lindsay has presented the word "Vuvuzela". Vuvuzela (noun, South Africa, 2003): A long simple musical...

On this weeks Topic Tuesday Meredith picks a quote from page xv of What the Robin Knows by Jon Young. “Robins? Sparrows? Juncos? Boring!...

On this weeks Manuscript Monday Meredith recommends How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature by...

I wondered what small part of me shone brightest to those from my past. And whether those relationships grew because of what I saw in them.