Homemaking
art and science and magic
Houses are built; homes are made. Here I've collected some of my thoughts about the components of homemaking as essays and trip reports. More thoughts on living a happy and centered life I'm posting in my online journal.
Autumn Reminisce, 2002 - "Fall is such a wonderful time. The air feels like promise and secrets, of all that has gone before and all that is yet to come."
Fathers Day, 2002 - "There was a thunderstorm moving through early one evening... the kind you can see coming toward you across the plain well before the wind shifts and picks up."
My parents have made, and are making, a wonderful home. Part of their magic is not yielding up the wonder most people associate only with childhood. There are plenty of times and places for maturity and responsibility, but there is room for wonder, too. Thanks, you two, you're amazing!
books my home would be incomplete without:
- The Joy of Cooking (and The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking)
- The Betty Crocker Cooky Book
- The DASH Diet for Hypertension
- The No-Salt Cookbook
- Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook (and Betty Crocker's New Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook and Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices)
- The Mother's Almanac and The Father's Almanac
- Where's Mom Now That I Need Her? and Where's Dad Now That I Need Him?
- Crock-Pot Cooking
- Mothers In The Kitchen, edited by Roberta Johnson (out of print, originally published in 1971 by the La Leche League, recipes submitted and tested by LLL moms)
- Our Bodies, Ourselves
- Some version of the Physicians Desk Reference guide to prescription drugs
- the American Medical Association's Family Medical Guide
- Peterson Field Guide to birds for your region (mine is Western US), also plants, trees, and/or wildflowers for your region, and rocks and minerals
- Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press and Field Guides from St. Martin's Press for other topics in the natural sciences
- Stephen J. Gould's The Book of Life
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos
- Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time
- Camping & Wilderness Survival
- US Army Survival Manual
- a good dictionary
- a good thesaurus
- books by Joseph Campbell
- Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic
- Norton Anthology of Poetry
- the complete poetry of Robert Frost
- the complete works of Shakespeare
- art books of Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea
- some version of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad
- Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War
- Edith Hamilton's Mythology
additional books... my childhood to young adulthood:
- Hamilton Duck and Hamilton Duck's Springtime Story by Arthur Getz
- Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Goodnight, Moon and The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard
- Be Nice To Spiders by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham
- Jane Thayer's Gus Was A Friendly Ghost
- Christina Katerina and the Box by Patricia Lee Gauch and Doris Burn
- Howard R. Garis' Uncle Wiggily Stories
- The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward and Marjorie Flack
- Paddington Bear by Michael Bond and R. W. Alley
- The Book of Giant Stories by David L. Harrison and Philippe Fix
- Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
- Mike Mulligan by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Animals' Merry Christmas by Kathryn B. Jackson
- A. A. Milne's The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh
- Beatrix Potter's books
- Doodlebug by Irene Brady
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
- books by Dr. Seuss
- Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Riki-Tiki-Tavi
- Grimm's fairy tales
- Andersen's fairy tales
- Aesop's fables
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Free To Be, You And Me by Marlo Thomas
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess
- E.B. White's Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little
- P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles and Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
- Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Stories for Free Children by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Jay Williams and Friso Henstra's The Practical Princess
- Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer
- Beverly Cleary's books
- Robert McCloskey's books
- Ruth Chew's books
- Edward Eager's books
- Judy Bloom's books
- Keith Robertson's Henry Reid series
- Jay Williams' Danny Dunn series
- Ellen MacGregor's Miss Pickerell series
- Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series
- John Bellairs' books
- E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
- William Pene du Bois' The Twenty-One Balloons
- Marguerite Henry's books
- Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming
- Walter Farley's books
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Jean Craighead George's Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain
- Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters) and the Austens' series
- Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy
- Anya Seton's The Hearth and Eagle and Green Darkness
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
- God: The Ultimate Autobiography by Jeremy Pascall
- The Dark Angel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
- Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom for Sale -- Sold!
- The Dragonlance series books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Isaac Asimov's Robot books
- Douglas Adams' books
- Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series
- Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer and Killashandra, and the Rowan series
- Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli series
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
- Frank Herbert's Dune series
suppliers of homemaking supplies and other nifty goodies
- Seventh Generation
- Whole Foods Markets
- Trader Joe's
- Wild Oats Markets
- local farmers markets (ways to find yours are listed on my gardening page)
- Signals
- A Prairie Home Companion Catalog
- NPR Shop
- Shop PBS
- The Vermont Country Store
- Discovery Channel Store
- Gardener's Supply Company (more gardening suppliers are listed on my gardening page)
- The Home Marketplace
- Betty Crocker Catalog Online Store
- Infusions of Tea
- Liberty Orchards
- Harry and David
- Jackson and Perkins
- Lego Shop At Home
- Edmund Scientifics
- Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories
- Tandy Leather Company
- (Yarn, knitting, crochet and other crafting suppliers are listed on my knitting page)
- Heathkit Museum (Heathkit ceased to be in the 1980's, but this tribute site is the most extensive I've found about it.)
places you must see if you are in the Indianapolis area:
- White River Gardens in every season of the year
- The Childrens Museum including the theaters
- Indianapolis Muesum of Art and its gardens
- Indiana Repertory Theatre
- Indianapolis Civic Theatre
- Phoenix Theatre for edgier plays
- Clowes Memorial Hall for all sorts of performances
- Connor Prairie Living History Museum and its upscale dinner restaurant
- Old Metamora (go for a ride on the barge and the train)
- Clifty Falls State Park
- Turkey Run State Park
- Brown County State Park (watch out for lots of deer and chubby and clever raccoons
- McCormick's Creek State Park
- Mounds State Park
- Shades State Park
- Spring Mill State Park (watch the blacksmith and buy some fresh stone-ground corn at the waterwheel-powered mill)
- The Eiteljorg Museum
- Monument Circle lit for the winter holidays (the lighting ceremony is always the day after Thanksgiving)
- The Indiana State Museum including lunch at the L.S. Ayres Tearoom by reservation, and the IMAX theater
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