Do people actually like square dancing?
After a brief resurgence of American folk music in the 1950’s, gym teachers everywhere muckled onto the square dance as a way to make middle schoolers suffer.
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8 essential and utterly ridiculous items you’ll need for ‘glamping’ in Maine
Glamping, more oxymoron than portmanteau, is a term that combines the words and concepts of glamor and camping to form ‘glamping’, which is a truly obnoxious and spectacular way to miss the point of camping altogether.
Great places to go skinny-dipping in Maine
Did you know that skinny-dipping has its roots in public bathhouses? Back in the 15th century, Europeans would relax into the holistic medicinal public baths where men could bond with men and women could socialize with women and both genders could cure what ailed them in separate bathhouses.
How to make Moth Broth and wow your kids this summer
This summer you can wow your kids with this fun (and stinky) science project that will attract moths and turn a fun adventure in entomology into an unforgettable educational experience.
Orlando, please understand
“I am watching your widespread sharing of opinions across all forms of media since the brutal slaying of innocent Americans in Orlando. You are sharing what you are for or what you are against. You are posting little internet memes about religions and weapons and political candidates.”
7 Gross sweets every kid in Maine will eat
When I was a small kid, I spent most of my allowance on those cheap, little wax-wrapped jewels that stuck to my teeth and had an aftertaste of bad decisions. As a parent, I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to convince my kids that sugar bugs will eat their beautiful teeth if they keep pounding back the sugar, but they insist, and I occasionally relent.
How I learned to clean a mouse trap without catching this deadly disease
Hantavirus is a dangerous disease that infects humans after contact with droppings, urine, or bodily fluids from rodents.
Rachel’s Day in the Garden: A Kids Yoga Spring Colors Book by Giselle Shardlow
A book review by Sarah Cottrell of Rachel’s Day in the Garden: A Kids Yoga Spring Colors Book by Giselle Shardlow
Rodents are an unpleasant reality of the ‘homesteading’ experience
From pulling weeds to setting traps, homesteading is sometimes an unpleasant and dirty experience that doesn’t resemble the clean and chic ideas that so often advertise the hip trend of going rural.
This is why we can’t have nice (environmentally-friendly) things
Once I had my own children, it was easy to develop an affinity for fellow mothers — to commiserate with them over sleepless nights born of 2 a.m. fevers, mealtime struggles with picky eaters and the Sisyphean effort to keep a house clean in the presence of jelly-smearing, mud-splattering littles. But there’s one mother with […]
