During my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route.
My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in the big city…isn’t as risky as you might think…. Even in the 1960s, when pollution was [...]
Posted in Having Faith, Mind & Society, Science & Technology | Also tagged Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Environment, Food, Having Faith, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sandra Steingraber, Scleroderma, Water |
The literacy of children thus follows the passions and engagements of the parents, and starts where they are.
Posted in Continuing Stories | Also tagged Aldo Leopold, Cities, Education, Environment, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lawrence University, Madison, Nelson Algren, Reading Leopold, Stories, Stuart Dybek, Studs Terkel, Wisconsin |
