More Than Four Sides

Category: Europe

  • Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker

    Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker. this book review hits so close to home!! Madeline Levine, a psychologist who lives outside San Francisco, specializes in treating young adults. In “Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success” (HarperCollins), she argues that we do too much for our kids because we overestimate…

  • I found the missing photo!!

    In my previous post, Musings…, I mentioned that I took a photo from this odd structure that we came upon in our wanderings in a less-than-picturesque part of Lisbon, and I thought I had trashed the photo – the magic of the Mac, and iPhoto – i just discovered it in a folder called “Recovered…

  • Musings (everyone seems to muse these days) on a week in Portugal, as I fly home…

    My first real trip abroad (ie outside the US), as an independent person was when I went to London, England when I was 16 years old, and spent 3-4 months with my aunt, and her assorted household, in a wonderful, funky old house on Parliament Hill, on the edge of the wondrous Hampstead Heath. On…