by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 23, 2013
A few weeks ago, we took our children to a Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the Children of the American Revolution. The event included a flying pancake breakfast, as well as volunteers dressed as soldiers and camp nurses who taught the attendees about the...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 22, 2013
Words for a Mindful Moment with the Breath “Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, “Well, that’s pretty much what...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 15, 2013
The Around the World In Six Weeks Parenting Blog Carnival continues today! Over the next several weeks, Deb of Urban Moo Cow, Jessica of School of Smock, Lauren of Omnimom, Stephanie of Mommy, For Real, and I will be writing about our reactions to Christine...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 11, 2013
My favorite line from the movie City Slickers is “Your life is a Do-Over.” Buddhism teaches much the same thing: Every moment, we begin anew. Each day, each hour, each breath is a do-over. But regret is different. There are things we wish we could have done...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 8, 2013
Food and eating are important parts of culture. Thinking of food only in terms of calories, nutrients, and ingredients is like thinking of language as simply a collection of phonics, syllables, and parts of speech. Food, like language, is a form of expression. It is...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jul 1, 2013
When some fellow bloggers and I first heard about Christine Gross-Loh’s new book, Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us, we were intrigued. This book addresses many of the tough questions of parenting: Where should...
