This video was created by Emily Edwards in April, 2012. It highlights some of the best parts of Orsch. Thank you Emily! We will always...

The flowers are wilting. Humans are not fit for the environment in which we immerse them during years of formal education. Sameness is...

Unfortunately the US educational system encompasses an environment based on sameness. In an educational setting, sameness leads to...

A Child’s Natural Habitat As our school developed, I came to realize that the happiness and success we observed in students was because...

A toddler is constantly bumbling around from engaging activity to engaging activity, often choosing activity over food or sleep,...

For decades we have been trying to push a cart with the nose of a horse. The Horse The horse is strength, freedom, individuality, and...

In an attempt to standardize, leave no child behind, and reach rigid benchmarks, traditional public education introduces detrimental...

Now can be as delicate as a soft loaf of fresh-baked sourdough straight out of the oven. To cut through the surface requires a fitting...

(Update: January 11, 2018) This post was written and posted Oct 5, 2015. Following this post, I spent the next three-plus years...

Written Sept 13, 2016. Your you evolves. A concept perhaps we should all embrace. Most of my life I have called myself a mountain girl....

Written April 25, 2018 This evening I found myself on a thoughtful, solo walk in the park. Gratefully my life offers this now. I have...

Written June 5, 2018 It just isn’t me. Asking me to be perfect is like asking a cat to bark, or asking a dog to meow. 🙂 It is like...

It was lovely to have a conversation about kids with Alan Wartes! Thank you Alan and Issa! Personally, I like the audio version best… 🙂...

I grew up in a Christian household(s). My parents divorced when I was a baby, but each were influential in my upbringing. My mother...