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Martha McClellan
Position: Authentic Aging

How often we eat may be as important as what we eat

There was an interesting article out recently by Ari LeVaux about eating. He wrote that the timing of meals, when you eat, can be as important as what you eat or how much. The adv...

Number of local families that need child care staggering

I recently had the opportunity to fill in for the director of the new child care center on Florida Road. It was fun to be in the beautiful new building, get to know the families enrolled the...

Summer is the perfect time to relax and slow down

I’ve been running into many families with young children this summer, at Trimble, downtown, at the farmers market, at the river and everywhere. It’s summer! People are all out and about, enj...

Animas High School senior presentations did not disappoint

I was very fortunate to attend several of the Senior Project Presentations from the founding class at Animas High School last month. I was particularly interested in seeing the many Children...

The feminist movement strikes again with a new book

Happy Mother’s Day! We mothers have been trying to define ourselves in relationship to our work forever. In the last 50 years, we seem to struggle and then gain more of an identity, then str...

Celebrate kids with 2013’s Week of the Young Child

Today is the start of the 2013 Week of the Young Child. This is a national celebration to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early ...