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Parenting Today
Physical Contact
Submitted Aug. 31, 2010As our children are born they leave a world in which they have been completely embraced by our physicality, where they are ‘held’ 24 hours a day for many months. That all encompassing touch is vital to the wellbeing of ...
Parenting Today
How Do We Discipline
Submitted Aug. 24, 2010I find myself revisiting the dilemma of discipline once again after a presentation offered this August at the Nelson Waldorf School. Visiting presenter Kim Payne offered his well developed, researched and hysterically funny ideas on the evolution of discipline in ...
Horoscope
Week of August 20, 2010
Submitted Aug. 20, 2010Tip of the Week:
What a powerful seed day! On August 20, Venus and Mars will be conjunct. On the same day Mercury turns Retrograde and the Sun in Leo is in exact opposition to Neptune. The overall theme speaks ...
Parenting Today
Turning it off for awhile.
Submitted Aug. 17, 2010Last weekend I had the absolute joy and pleasure of spending 48 hours immersed in spontaneous, creative play with my eight year old. We canceled all social engagements, turned off the phone and all other electronics, then decided any chores ...
Horoscope
Week of August 13, 2010
Submitted Aug. 13, 2010Tip of the Week:
This is another exciting week from the standpoint of planetary alignments. First, we are in a new Lunation Cycle seeded by the New Moon on August 9. With Venus conjunct Saturn and both in exact Opposition ...
Parenting Today
Doing Our Own Work
Submitted Aug. 10, 2010I recently re-read the following poem by Kahil Gibran in which he speaks clearly of our work as parents to be the strong foundation from which our children go forth to build their own lives.
And a woman who held ...
Community Initiatives
Introducing Community Initiatives
Submitted Nov. 04, 2009Community Initiatives is a column about up and coming or new projects in the Anchorage area. Local non profit groups working in our community make regular life enhancing contributions to us all. The Community Initiatives column is an opportunity for ...
Read moreArt Scene
Introducing Art Scene
Submitted April 07, 2009Art Scene is a column written by and for the artists themselves. This
is an online resource for local artists to feature their work, bringing
it into the community and to the wider world through this website.
All articles will ...
Adopt A Pet
Introducing Adopt a Pet
Submitted April 02, 2009Adopt a Pet is a regular feature column created by farnorthanchorage to support the work of local animal shelters. We will post profiles and pictures of animals currently available for adoption, increasing the online exposure for local shelters and helping ...
Read moreChoosing Health
Introducing Choosing Health
Submitted March 25, 2009Choosing Health is a column featuring the work of local health care
practitioners, the services they offer and the products they supply.
If you would like to feature your business in this column send us a
feature length article with ...
