Category: Pop and Thistle

Introducing ‘Cooking with Coraline’

Today I’m starting a new series – “Cooking with Coraline”.  For those of you that don’t know, Coraline is my precious 3 year old daughter.  She is spunky, she is witty, she is kind and she loves cooking! Today we decided to start our morning by making a quick – and I mean quick – …

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Backyard Wonders

I have found over the years that I have become a person that will leaf through travel brochures and gaze longingly at planes as they pass by overhead. I think to myself, “What wonders will I see if I travel to faraway destinations? What would I experience?” I think everyone has those thoughts, well, except …

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A Weekend Getaway to Kansas City, Missouri

My friends and I took advantage of spring’s temperate weather last weekend to take an overnight getaway to Kansas City, Missouri, which has much to offer, too much to explore in a weekend, but we had a wonderful time visiting a few of its cultural spots. On our way into town, we stopped at the …

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Disney Offers a Flyover View of Star Wars Land #StarWarsDay

Happy Star Wars Day! Disney recently posted a flyover view of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Construction Site; Galaxy’s Edge is set to open at Disneyland and Disney World parks in 2019.

Language Development and Your Four Year Old

The preschool age is a wonderful time during childhood and I really enjoyed teaching children in this age group.  They are interested in learning about any topic from bugs to space and have countless questions for you to answer.  Developmentally, they should be at a level to really express their needs and some of them …

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Celebrate Earth Day with the Lyrid Meteor Shower

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to top it off with the a meteor shower? This Earth Day weekend we are graced with the dazzling Lyrid Meteor Shower, which peaked last night and will hopefully brighten the skies again tonight at about 2 a.m. local daylight time. The Lyrid Meteor Shower is one of the …

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Earth Day Awareness: The Town with No Waste

Here’s the story of how one group of people are making drastic changes to live waste-free lives. In 2003, the government of Kamikatsu, Japan implemented a rigorous recycling program where the residents were asked to separate their waste into 34 categories, with the goal of being a waste free town.  Now, they are nearly at that …

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A Stargazing Mecca for Every Corner of the U.S.

If you want some open, scenic spaces for stargazing on your next road trip, then consider these enchanting locales.  Thanks to national park preservation and organizations like the International Dark-Sky Association that help to provide sanctuaries without artificial light, there are a number of great places in the U.S. to stargaze. Here are some of …

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Cheat Sheets: Butterflies

If you have ever spent a few minutes with any child, you will know that they can come up with questions that stump you.  I have seen experts in a field being taken completely aback by the complex question asked by a 5 year old.  I have also seen those same experts sputter and blush …

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Week One of #The100DayProject

Starting on April 3rd of last week, a number of artists started #The100DayProject, where they committed to creating a work of art every day for 100 days and posting them on social media. New Zealand graphic designer Emma Rogan got the idea for the project in 2011, after reading about Michael Bierut’s “100 Days of …

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