Ronia's guide to street fashion in NYC

Ronia aka "the satorialist."


Hippies in Liberty Park are always cutting edge.

Ronia says "Good cheese is never out of style. " at Beechers in Manhattan

Ronia at DSW. . . "Well, there are lots of leg warmers and funky boots, but where oh where are the diaper covers?"


Ronia contemplates her fleeting youth.

Oh and Ben took this picture of our house from two fields behind it. You can't see all the roads so we look like we live in the middle of nowhere. Anyway it was a cool view.

Hello again NYC and Occupy Wall Street

Ben took me (and Ronia) up to NEw York with him for my 30th birthday. Wow, what an amazing time! I had lots of lovely time walking around with my husband and looking at all the beautiful buildings shrouded in October mist. There was great banjo music, espresso, and markets. . .

We rode the subway down to wall street to watch the protests and see what was really going on. I don't really trust the right or left media anymore so we thought it was a great chance to see stuff firsthand. I think that on one hand I could see how anger can feed anger and that there is a real clash of cultures mounting to a head here in the US. . . . that makes me a wee bit scared. On the other hand I saw reasons for hope.. . People who want the right to solve their own problems and put a stop to Wall street funding public policy. All very good and noble aims.
I think that the young people know that they have been cheated on one level and are open to change. That is essentially good. I just think we really need a St. Francis to lead them. . . and not a Lenin. At least they were cleaning up after themselves and have lots of fiddlers and banjo players.

Oh, also just finished the book Goat Song last night. If I wanted a goat before, now I REALLY want one. . . . or at least a bunch of goat milk so I can learn to make a tomme or at least chevre. . . .
Also learned that many letters of our alphabet come from our pastoralist roots. Newfound respect for yodeling.

Ronia is six months old!

She's on the move. Look out big sisters.

AH summer is over, and the blog is long neglected. We had an amazing trip to California to visit my family. The big highlights were going to the beach, going to the Zoo with Nonna, long evenings full of wine, amazing cheese, lasagne, sushi, fritto misto, the list goes on and on, and best of all CAMPING IN THE REDWOODS! I finally was able to meat my dear little neice too!

Now we have begun the school year and I am not sure where blogging is going to fit into things. I have been working rather intensely on discipline with a schedule of housework and schoolwork with the girls and myself. So far things have been going well. We have decided to do schoolwork in the afternoons which I find is working much better for us, We have a weekly schedule of Monday, laundry, Tuesday, Baking, Wednesday, Cleaning, Thursday, organizing and yard, gardening, etc. and Friday errands. So far this has made my life hugely more organized and since I know what I am doing it is easier to fit in little additions to the schedule here and there. I am also happy thus far with the three Classical Liberal Arts Academy classes that we have been doing this year. We did one last year just to try it out and we are doing two more this year. So far so good. One of Angelica's classes was even written by my old college proffesor!

Daniela, I haven't forgotten you! Ben and I are really shooting for next spring so keep your fingers crossed. We miss everyone over in Gravagna so much!

Its been a looooong month since posting. I think many deep thoughts these days but have been neglecting the old bloggo a bit. Ben has just returned from New Orleans and the American Library Association conference. The girls and I had some adventures in his absence including meeting a cool family who is living in an old Civil War era Barn they are fixing up.
Between Birth Circle, the creek, La Leche Leauge, the Summer Reading program, the pool, and the river, we are having a busy summer and I am spending most of my free moments enjoying Ronia and her smallness and sweetness. Aunt Josepha came for a visit and brought lots of cheese too!

I also finally caved and put two bumper stickers on my car, which has been devoid of soundbites until now. I put a "Buy fresh, Buy Local" sticker and a "Ten Moons Midwifery" one. A good start. But we will leave it at that until Dan Nichols makes his Wedell Berry one.