The night before my early morning keynote as I’m tweaking my slideshow in my hotel room I get a call to come up to the party in room 416 – “there’s a guitar, drinks, and lots of singing! come on up! do you have any spoons you can bring?”

My goal was to take it easy, go to bed early, be nice and rested for my morning talk…but how could I resist that offer? As soon as I got to the  [read more →]

So after checking out the natural playscape projects sprouting up in St John’s it was time to check out St John’s itself. What a place!

On way home from Newfoundland to Ithaca, sitting in the Halifax, Nova Scotia airport. Just had a great trip to St John’s, Newfoundland to give a keynote talk all about the natural playscape movement. Folks there are EXCITED! Talking about the natural playscape REVOLUTION. I like that.

Right now many many play spaces for children in Canada are flat fenced-in areas covered in Pea Gravel. After showing loads of nature play pictures and possibilities I had the group of 250 early  [read more →]