Students at Isaac Dickson Elementary recently gained an intensive hands-on learning experience—they got to play in the mud while helping build a working clay oven. Once the oven was ready, the kindergarten-through-second-graders were able to cook pizzas in their new creation. Pizza, anyone? A students who’s all fired up about Issac Dickson Elementary School’s new […]
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Edgy Mama: Marriage equals more housework
I knew it, but it took a bunch of researchers to prove it. Marriage equals extra hours of housework for women, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. For men, getting hitched saves an hour of weekly chore time. Well, duh.
United by words
WordFest Media Outreach Project’s slogan, “Because poetry unites people,” offers a glimpse of the festival’s four days of poetic diversity. Not surprisingly, the inaugural WordFest includes a variety of poetry performances and events designed to appeal to—and unite—a variety of people. “For millennia, poetry has held cultures together even in the face of great changes,” […]
Edgy Mama: The family bed
Sleep-sharing — it may not be for every family, and not even for every child, but when it works, it’s a good thing.
Edgy Mama: Be a weed
How does one become an edgy mama? There are many answers to that question. My answer? Be a weed.
Edgy Mama: Parenting salaries
Parenting is the hardest job I’ve ever had. And the pay sucks. Unless you’re a nanny (or manny), you’re not paid to parent. But to make parents feel better (or possibly worse), the folks at salary.com came up with a “Mom Salary Wizard.”
Edgy Mama: Picky, persnickety, fussy eaters
“My kids excel in a number of areas, but they are at the top of the heap when it comes to picky eating.”
Biltmore’s blooming glory
For the first time, the Biltmore Estate is offering a spring pass for its annual Festival of Flowers to locals.
Getting the lead out
A massive recall of toys contaminated with lead paint sent parents running to check their toy boxes last fall. That seemingly most innocuous of spots, the foyer of the local Toys R’ Us, is currently wallpapered with bright-yellow consumer warnings. There’s more than butter on that toast: Adrianne Weir of UNCA’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Center […]
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?
In early March, the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling of Georgia won a settlement from a federal fund that compensates people injured by vaccines. This news thrilled local Moms Against Mercury activists, especially Amy Carson, the group’s president and co-founder. Activist on wheels: Amy Carson of Asheville says her son was developmentally damaged by a […]
Edgy Mama: Restaurant wars
Going out to dinner at a restaurant with my family is part of how I like to celebrate my birthday. The challenge is figuring out which restaurants can cater to my family’s food needs.
Edgy Mama: Momnesia
You’ve seen it, you’ve heard of it, you’ve dealt with it: Momnesia—that period of memory lapses and fuzzy thinking that follow giving birth.
Edgy Mama: Family dating
When you’re married and have young children, you figure your dating life is pretty much over. Wrong. In fact, it’s just the time to start dating. Dating other families, that is.
Settlement excites local mercury activists
The family of a 9-year-old Georgia girl announced Thursday that they’d won a settlement from a federal fund that compensates people injured by vaccines. The news has thrilled Asheville activists who have been fighting for a government admission that there are potential problems with vaccines.
Making Anywhere, USA
SCENE: Cell phone rings. Protagonist answers, then feels a blood rush of fear. He speaks. He listens. His knees crash into the sea of driveway pebbles. That’s our protagonist, Anthony “Chusy” Haney-Jardine, there on the ground, writhing. Lots of writhing. Keeping it in the family: Perla Haney-Jardine, daughter of director Chusy Haney-Jardine and producer Jennifer […]
Edgy Mama: Translating parent-speak
Parent: “Your son’s very physical, isn’t he?”
Translation: “Your kid is a total spaz. Has he been diagnosed with ADHD yet? Sheesh, I’m sorry. You’ve got your hands full, don’t you?”
Terre verte (outrageously earth green) wedding ideas
You’re the kind of person who goes above and beyond the typical green-wedding plans. Those low-impact options the other bridezillas embrace—hemp wedding gowns, recycled paper invites, vegetarian cuisine, outdoor reception spots—those are green gimmes. You want that cloud of smog to become a cloud of smug, don’t you? Yes, you do. So I’m here to […]
Edgy Mama: Kids and the dentist
In case you didn’t know, February is Children’s Dental Health Month. So I took my kids to the dentist last week.
Words to live by
Well-known poets participate in inaugural Wordfest.
Edgy Mama: Smackdown referee
Screaming. Fists smacking into flesh. Hurled insults. Crashing sounds. No, I’m not describing a drunken Saturday night bar fight. I’m describing almost any day in my sunny living room.
Edgy Mama: How to drive your kids nuts
I’m occasionally blessed with three kids (third- and fourth-graders) riding in my mommy van at the same time. These kidlings seem to think there’s limo glass between the front and back seats. If I stay quiet, I can learn a lot. Like who has a crush on whom and who got sent to the principal’s office. And how their parents drive them nuts.