It’s getting close to baby time now, and the days are both moving slowly and also very quickly.  After a few crazy days of doing too much, my midwife ordered me to do nothing, so I spent most of last week doing as little as I could.  I’m glad to say I’m feeling well again, ...
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Thank you all for your kind words about our trip!  Back at home, it has been an adjustment to come home from the White House, back to our own daily lives. To participate in such a public, huge action, and then to return to our own, mostly private, mostly small gestures.  I won’t lie when ...
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Dear Ella and Baby, On November 5, 2011 the four of us (Baby still in the belly) traveled 7 hours by train to Washington D.C.  We didn’t go to tour the museums or to see historic sites.  We went to make history, by joining over 12,000 of our friends to say no to the Keystone ...
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Little did we know last week that this week we would be under twenty inches of snow.  But luckily, we went out last week and gathered pokeberries for some dyeing.  Guided by the book Harvesting Color, Ella and I spent most of a day gathering, simmering, and simmering some more.  We dyed one playsilk, and ...
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