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The Benefits of Funding Nurturing, Nature-Full Schools … Instead of Police

Posted June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 ClairePosted in Schools

Link to high-resolution pdf file: Funding Nurturing Nature-Full Schools Instead of Police

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A Search for A Place

Posted May 26, 2014October 15, 2018 Claire1 CommentPosted in Places

Twenty-two years ago, I had just married, was graduating college, and on a search for a place to live. I imagined myself settling into family life and raising children in one place, wherever that place might be. Instead, I moved through six communities as I raised three children, went back to school, divorced and began […]

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Setting Roots

Posted March 22, 2014October 15, 2018 ClairePosted in At Home

In honor of the five year anniversary of buying my house … Excerpt from Making Home: from the Sticks to LaLa-Land Once the wake of my divorce began smoothing out around me, I felt the need to anchor myself. I wanted to settle down. I wanted a home of my own. It had been five years […]

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Rain and Teenagers in Los Angeles

Posted March 2, 2014October 15, 2018 ClairePosted in At Home, Schools

Los Angeles Deluge Part One You’ve probably heard, or been in, the rain this weekend. After months of no rain, we’ve had a deluge in Los Angeles. In a record low rainfall year – the last I heard was 3″ – we got that much in a 48-hour period. For Southern California, that’s a big […]

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The Nature of a School Landscape

Posted January 18, 2014October 15, 2018 ClairePosted in Schools

Think back to your childhood school … what is the first image that pops into your head? I have two distinct memories of elementary school.​ One is of me swinging next to Katie Coffee on the big metal swing set the day after Jimmy Carter was elected President.​ The other is of a big maple […]

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