A Place Like This

Creative endeavors

  • The Stick Fort

    Late on a summer afternoon, after exhausting his mother, Little "O" summoned the help of a new partner to hack and tie together the stick fort. I loved listening to their conversations about stick length and fort dimensions,    Stacking… Continue reading

  • The Hacket

    I woke up Saturday to a changing season. The air was cool and smelled of the damp cool earth. The insect chatter is quickly twindling, and the encroaching feeling of needing to be surrounded by wool is descending upon me.… Continue reading

  • A Mother’s Wish: Create with Purpose

    …….a continuation from yesterday………. "Along with the foxes many doors have opened." During last summer, as I was greatly missing the foxes and as people constantly were asking me about them, I realized that I wanted to hold onto those… Continue reading

  • Joy On Purpose: The Fox Diaries

    Don't Forget! Today is the last day to enter the Little Acorn Learning Giveaway. It's open until 8 pm EST tonight. Please leave your comment here.   Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post……. A little over a year… Continue reading

  • Look Up

    What's that up there?    Is it a plane?   ……Is it a Rocket?……Is it a fish? Yes and much more.  Yesterday was the Kite festival . Luckily we had great warm weather and a lot of wind.  Everybody came with… Continue reading

  • Play It Loud And Dance Freely Because…..

    IT'S SPRING BREAK!!!!!  Finals are over and it's time to do the dance for joy. Please come dance with us. Continue reading

  • I Wore the Gauntlet

    The instructions were simple really……. Love and take care of the dog. Keep the home fires burning. "All you have to do is keep adding wood to the fire but not too much wood or the smoke stack will catch… Continue reading

  • I got the big picture

    I have the photo bug really bad. I can absolutely attribute this to the blogs. Before I had a blog I left the photo taking to my husband.  To capture the treasured moments of each day and to recount memories… Continue reading

  • Some Things in my Ear

    Yesterday Mimi and I headed to the store to do what's known as the "big shop"; buying everything needed for Thanksgiving dinner. With all of the cooking,crafting, and writing I'm doing lately, I have many things loaded onto my ipod… Continue reading

  • The Fairy Forest

    Where the forest meets the sea,   there is a pilgrimage of sorts. Mothers, fathers, grandparents,aunts,uncles, and all the children who love them, all become gatherers of sticks, bark, stones,sea shells, and moss.      All walking down the forest path… Continue reading