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Check out Shareable.net

by Angela 11.11.2009

Today, we have an article featured on Shareable.net, “How to be a carfree family.” Those of you who are carfree, car-light, or just interested in the lifestyle should check it out and leave a comment. Jeremy Adam Smith also has a great post up, “5 Ways My Son Benefits from a Carfree Life“. In fact, [...]

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Update: Our (not so) Carfree Birth

by Angela 06.08.2009

Rowdy Kittens wrote recently in the Small Living Journal that one way for people to become more involved in their communities is to go carfree. We couldn’t agree more, and we’ve noticed this in particular around the birth of our baby boy. Because of complications, Dorea had to be induced at 38 weeks, and we [...]

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Toddler commentary on Red Line delays

by Dorea 01.23.2009

At the ripe old age of 2 1/2, H’s T-riding prowess continues to increase. She now regularly walks to our station (Alewife) in a relatively timely fashion, and rides sitting in her own seat. Yesterday, she and I needed to get downtown and back. Coming back to Cambridge on the red-line at 5:30 with a [...]

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Taking the bus against medical advice

by Dorea 01.07.2009

Yesterday, I went along with Angela for her first ever endoscopy, but this post isn’t about digestive troubles (as exciting as such things may be–and yes, everything is fine). Angela was specifically instructed that she would not be permitted to leave the hospital by herself, since she would be fairly drugged up for the procedure [...]

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Car-free toddler development

by Dorea 12.04.2008

Upon arrival home last night, Angela reported the following conversation with H earlier in the evening: H: Where Mama?A: Mama is taking the train home.H: Mama on the train?A: Yep.H: Mama go to Alewife?A: Yep. It’s not in any of the books, but I believe this is a major developmental milestone. Our two-year-old knows our [...]

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Train trip to Drumlin Farm

by Dorea 10.06.2008

On Sunday, we made a train trip with Grandma (aka “Baba”) to the Drumlin Farm Fall Festival just West of here in Lincoln, MA. Prior to going to the farm, H insisted that there would be “Horses and cows and sheep and turtles and crabs closing their eyes under the water.” Perhaps she was unduly [...]

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Hospitals, Birth & Carseats

by Dorea 09.29.2008

Angela and I were just remembering coming home from H’s birth, over two years ago. We were at a hospital about four blocks from our house. They wouldn’t let us leave with the baby unless we put her into one of those infant carseats (or “baby buckets” as we call them around here). We hadn’t [...]

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Friendship, Cars, and Carfree Families

by Angela 09.19.2008

Josh Hart has done research in the UK on the impact of traffic on community life. His research shows that on streets with heavy traffic, residents have dramatically fewer friends in their neighborhood and their sense of what neighborhood space belongs to them is greatly decreased. It would be great to see similar research focused [...]

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