Wednesday, 11th of May, 2016 Without knowing what the day would hold, I received the best birthday present I could have hoped for. My morning started around 6am. I came out of a dream sequence where I was once again in a women’s circle discussing leg hair. I am not sure why this theme is […]
Monday, 18th of January, 2016 I started babysitting quite young, and now I think about it, I count the families I child minded for as some of my most inspiring life teachers. I remember the night Mum dropped me off at my first babysitting job at a farm house on a country road in Lindendale. I […]
In a small coastal town of Maine, the Chittenden family is living a life many of us aspire to. Their house and garden are quintessentially homesteader, handmade from the ground up: house, furniture, food and clothes all come from their own toil. But the most precious thing I witnessed was their connection and dedication to […]
Text and Photos By Dieny Itoe Here in Scotland, in the north-east corner of our front courtyard, is an almost-400-year-old water well. We are yet to send a bucket down but the day we do, I will be transported back to my early childhood that was spent a little north of the equator, in my […]