calamity jane

Author: Calamity Jane

  • Punk Housewife Tip: The Other Half of the Onion

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    And what to do with it? Why, put it on an upturned yogurt lid of course! Though it took me years to figure that out. Save a baggie and still keep your fridge from smelling like an onion sandwich. This also works brilliantly for lemon and apples.

  • A Stick, a Bucket, and a Piece of Rope

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    Calamity Jane

    Speaking of removing external suggestion to allow your child’s authentic self to blossom, let’s talk toys. I’ve been thinking about toys ever since the first ones started arriving in the mail, 3 months before the due date of my first child. When I was despairing the already accumulating stores of kid stuff, my mother-in-law said…

  • Truly Green Investment

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    These few years in New Orleans have been really great, this place is as good as a city gets– charming old architecture steeped in history, a vitally important music and art scene, fabulous restaurants, a very un-American lack of prudishness, and whole seasons of jasmine and magnolia flowers. But, I am not a city girl.…

  • Punk Housewife Tip: Small Freezer Portions

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    Calamity Jane

    There are some things that are just too handy not to keep in small portions in your freezer, no matter how Betty Crocker it makes you feel. Two such things are chicken stock and chopped tomatoes. I make my own stock and put it into pint size or bigger jars for the freezer, but there…

  • Unschooling Possibilities

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    Calamity Jane

    Last summer I hit the pre-school vs homeschool debate pretty hard in my head (read the original post if you have time, the following will make more sense.) The outcome of all my obsessing was joining a homeschool group and rallying a subset of families with smaller kids for a weekly playgroup. We’ve been meeting…