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When You Can’t Keep Up with all the New Experiences
This is an epic train journey that is slowly coming down the tracks to you . . . When you can’t keep up with all
This is an epic train journey that is slowly coming down the tracks to you . . . When you can’t keep up with all
Even more Day 1 of the travel to an environmental conference without breaking the environment. #BumpityBoulevardOnTheRails The traveling went faster than the blogging so now
More Day 1 in how to get to a conference on the environment with breaking the environment I asked this group of friends in the
Day 1 in our quest to get to a conference on the environment without breaking the environment. I like trains and we’re about to go
I wish I’d asked what was the hardest part about working with a horse: keeping the rows straight or making the turn at the end
Author Justine Laismith has a great page of school resources introducing Chinese culture for ages 9 to 13 years. The videos, activities, and photos are
Vermont author Kate Messner has a marvelous collection of author videos!!!! (I watched Grace Lin’s “How to Draw A Chinese Dragon” right away. 🙂 The
What is international book giving day? https://bookgivingday.com/about/ Get the poster, bookmarks and bookplate here. The website suggests 6 ways you can get involved: 14th February
We have a supposedly American car, a Ford Fusion, but it lives in Germany, so it has to have German antifreeze. Natch. Instead of 5-gallon,
Lately, I’ve been thinking about safe spaces to create art. On the weekend, we visited Abbey Mariawald, famous for its split-pea soup. Judging from the
The Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy was over the top! I love watching live orchestras and this one had 5 string basses. 🙂 And the
Vegetable garden overtaken by poppies, nasturitiums, cosmos and zucchini plants Clearly this garden needs tools and more plants. 🙂 I’ve never grown vegetables in Germany–until
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Laurel