Letters From Noe’s Garden
Bring Warmth and Wonder to Family Life
Song Teaching Videos For May Faire
May Faire is just around the corner! To anyone located in the San Francisco Bay Area, I hope you'll join us for this wonderful event, cohosted by Neighborhood Playgarden and Meadowlark Music Class. There will be May Pole dancing, flower crown making, pony rides,...
New Meadowlark Music Class Album – Spring Raindrops
Big news from me today - the new Meadowlark Music Class album is finished and available for download! I look forward to singing these songs in person with you at all Meadowlark music classes, and related events this spring! About the Album As I've shared with you,...
Tutorial: Make a scarf puppet marionette
A highlight of Meadowlark Music Class is the puppet show. It's right after our lullaby song, so everyone is calm and settled. Along with musical accompaniment from one of our homemade recordings, I bring out a puppet that embodies the...
The Wise Eyes of Love
A little over ten years ago, I heard a speaker who changed my life. It happened at the Bioneers Conference in Marin. I was attending this festival for ecological activists with my then boyfriend, (now husband), whose film was playing at the festival. It was a hard...
New Meadowlark Music Class Release – Where Do the Bear Cubs Go?
Our new Meadowlark Music Class album is finished! Like all our releases, it’s pay what you want to download. Which means you’re welcome to download and share it for free. To those who decide to contribute, I am so grateful to you for supporting my work. Thank you!...
Silent Night – Happy Holidays from Meadowlark Music Class!
This time of year gets so hectic, and a lot of it is VERY FUN hecticness. The gingerbread house! Decorating cookies! Decorating the tree! The Christmas stockings! And in families like mine, which draw upon our two ancestral faiths, only last week it was Chanukah!...
A song for your Solstice / Christmas reveling!
Today I want to share one of my favorite holiday songs with you. I love this song because it captures a quality of Christmas that not all holiday music seems to capture. It’s not about presents or reindeer or Christmas trees. It IS about Jesus. But this Jesus is a far...
The Fifteen Best Instruments for your Young Child
Parents frequently ask me what kinds of instruments I would recommend for their young children to play at home. Here's my list, in time for the holidays! First, a disclaimer: I've chosen instruments that I hope will get years of play in your family, lasting well your...
Halloween with Littles – Minus the Sugar Crash!
Our family loves trick or treating. This year, we’ll join the masses on Fair Oaks Street, losing ourselves in a sweeping tide of Elsas, Moanas, tiny ghosts and wizards. The children make sure we don’t miss a single house, and we always come home with heaps of candy....
Noticing our blessings – a nightly gratitude practice for families
As a child, I was intrigued by the idea of nightly prayers. This wasn’t something I had ever done, or seen anybody do. But I often wondered about it, and wished I knew how to do it. I first learned about nightly prayers on television. Anne of Green Gables, to be...